Modern Engineered Bamboo Structures (ePub)

Dr. Y. Xiao is Distinguished Professor, Program Director for Energy, Environment and Infrastructure Sciences, in the Zhejiang University - University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Institute (ZJUI), Zhejiang University International Campus in Haining, China. His academic career spanned in Japan, US and China. He serves as the associate editor for the ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering, Journal of Bridge Engineering, and editorial board member of the Journal of Constructional Steel Research. He is elected fellows of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and the American Concrete Institute (ACI). Passionate about bamboo, Dr. Xiao focuses and publishes pioneered research on engineered bamboo and holds many patents and the trademark technology GluBam®. In 2008, he was awarded the Best of What's New in 2008 by the Popular Science Magazine, and was named as the Popular Science Innovator of 2008. Prof. Xiao's team has designed and built many demonstration bamboo houses and bridges in China and Africa.

Dr. Z. Li graduated in civil engineering in 2009 from the Southwest Jiaotong University, then was enrolled in master/doctoral courses at the Hunan University. As an exchange student, he pursued doctoral courses at the Sapienza University of Rome, through Erasmus project (Eurasian University Network for International Cooperation in Earthquakes), and obtained a Ph.D. degree there in 2015. From Feb. 2015 to June 2016, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Sapienza University of Rome. He is now on the faculty as an assistant professor in college of civil engineering, Nanjing Tech University. Since 2009, he has been working on modern bamboo structures and has published more than 12 international journal papers related to this topic.

Mrs. Liu Kewei is the Coordinator of Global Bamboo Construction Programme at the International Bamboo and Rattan Organisation (INBAR - www.inbar.int), based at its