Use Of Bamboo In Bicycle


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Creator/Artist: Shashank Gautam

Category: Product Design

Document: P2 Project

Batch: 2014-2016

Source: India,   IDC

Period:  2009-2018

Medium: Report pdf

Supervisor: Prof. R. Sandesh


Detailed Description

Bamboo has a long and well-established tradition as a craft and building material throughout the world’s trophical and sub-trophical regions. It is widely used as a material for many forms of products and construction, in particular for traditional art and craft in rural areas. Bamboo is a renewable and versatile resource, characterized by high strength and low weight, and is easily worked using simple roots. It is widely recognized as one of the most important non-timber forest resources due to the high socio economic benefits from bamboo based products. It is estimated that there are 1200 species growing in about 14.5 million hectares area. Most of them grow in Asia, Africa and Latin America. And India is the second largest producer of Bamboo.(National Mission on Bamboo Corporation, 2015). Bamboo is one of the strane species of grass which nature endows. The mechanical properties of bamboo is unbelievable. Bamboo has been in wide usage since ancient times as a low cost material for houses, bridges etc.


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