Date of Award
Spring 2024
Document Type
Thesis
Publisher
Santa Clara : Santa Clara University, 2024
Department
Civil, Environmental and Sustainable Engineering
First Advisor
Tonya Nilsson
Abstract
In years prior, faculty and students at ITESO Universidad in Guadalajara, Mexico, have worked with local low-income communities in the development of bamboo structural end-to-end connections. To advance and expand on this bamboo structural research, faculty from ITESO reached out to Santa Clara University’s Frugal Innovation Hub to get a new perspective on the problem. With the given constraints of cost and strength, the engineer was otherwise free to explore solutions independently. In order to address the needs of the low-income community that ITESO faculty sought to help, a series of bamboo connections making use of bamboo culm end modifications (Phase One), external bindings around the bamboo culms (Phase Two), and a combination of the two (Phase Three) were created and tested. Tests were performed using a fourpoint bending test configuration on a Tinius Olsen machine. The test results and analysis, AutoCAD drawings detailing the development of the connection, and a “How- To” manual instructing how to create the connection were presented in Spring of 2024 and delivered to the community in Mexico.
Recommended Citation
Uyeda, Turner, "Development of Bamboo Connections with Iteso Universisdad in Guadalajara, Mexico" (2024). Civil, Environmental and Sustainable Engineering Senior Theses. 110.
https://scholarcommons.scu.edu/ceng_senior/110