Design and manufacture technology of prefabricated bamboo house.

This paper introduces a design and manufacture technology of prefabricated modular bamboo house, which can meet the modern residential requirements. Firstly, Moso bamboo (Phyllostachys pubescens) was conditioned to approximate constant mass in atmospheric conditions, then main physicalmechanical properties were tested and design stresses were calculated. After that，modular construction components including trusses and walls were assembled by using special connections and joints to combine and reinforce bamboo together. The truss was tested safe enough under specified load; lateral bearing capacity of the wall was 0.78 t and could be used as loadbearing wall in twostorey building. Based on the experiments, a modular bamboo house was built up with the designed components. The results show that it is technically feasible to use bamboo as main materials in modern prefabricated house.