Research Article | Published: 01 March 2015

Variation of Shrinkage in Relation to Anatomical Properties and age of Selected Bamboo Species, Bambusa bambos (L.) Voss and Dendrocalamus strictus Nees

R.  Santhoshkumar and K.V.  Bhat

Indian Journal of Forestry | Volume: 38 | Issue: 1 | Page No. 87-89 | 2015
DOI: https://doi.org/10.54207/bsmps1000-2015-7E36BW | Cite this article

Abstract

Bamboo species is widely used for different purposes in the different parts of World. The variation in properties of the culms of bamboos are affected its use. Shrinkage is one of the physical properties in bamboo and it will affect the products. In this article deals with the variation in shrinkage at different height levels of bamboo culms, different portion in bamboo culms such as outer to inner variation, variation in different age groups of bamboo culms. In addition to this tangential and radial variation in shrinkage also studied. The result shows that a uniform trend in variation was observed based on different parameters.

Keywords

Bambusa bambos, Dendrocalamus strictus, Shrinkage variation, Anatomical Properties, Age

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Santhoshkumar, R. and Bhat, K., 2015. Variation of Shrinkage in Relation to Anatomical Properties and age of Selected Bamboo Species, Bambusa bambos (L.) Voss and Dendrocalamus strictus Nees. Indian Journal of Forestry, 38(1), pp.87-89. https://doi.org/10.54207/bsmps1000-2015-7E36BW

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Manuscript Published on 01 March 2015

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