Go BackThe Peru Project – Low Cost Housing for the United Nations: Composite bamboo/polyurethane foam beams – Photographs of testing procedure
01/01/1969Sixteen photographs from testing the application of vertical loads on a real-size fabricated composite bamboo beam, for assessing the extent it affected its buckling. .
Photograph:
- 1) Setting up the testing procedure by hanging the empty barrels on the raised & properly supported beam
- 2) Barrels are hung, ready to be filled with water
- 3) Filling in the empty barrels with water
- 4) Barrels filled with water up to the rim; beam buckling to be measured
- 5) Added weight on top of the beam shows some buckling
- 6) Detail of the beam with the empty hung barrels
- 7) Measuring the buckling against a leveled stretched line of string
- 8) Focus of the composite bamboo beam, the knot on the robe and the stretched line of string
- 9) Closer view of the previous image, focusing on the pins marking on the bamboo the horizontal level, before loads were applied
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