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Research and prospects of bamboo bolts in China: state of the art

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Bamboo has been used as a structural material for thousands of years. Due to its advantages in carbon absorption, mechanical properties, material supply and growth rate, etc., many bamboo products, especially engineered bamboo, were proposed and applied in buildings and structures. In this process, more than 40 years have passed since bamboo bolts were first applied. However, the shortage of strength and durability rendered the stagnated development of bamboo bolts, leading to the risk of being completely displaced. To arouse this environmental-friendly and high-specific-strength material in the application of ground anchorage, this paper summarised and further discussed the achievements of bamboo bolts and related products in China, including their classification, mechanical properties, anchorage performance, etc. According to the results, bamboo bolts still have vitality as a means of reinforcement if the shortcomings can be overcome. Therefore, a self-anchored bamboo bolt with a U-anchor head has been proposed in the following, which can give full play to the parallel-to-fibre tensile strength of bamboo strips and thus realise the efficient transformation from material properties to anchorage performance.

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The authors acknowledge the funding supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51908038), and support from the Research on Ecological Restoration Technology of High Slope Support (No. 2020-K-336).

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XL conceptualization, validation, analysis and interpretation of data, writing—original draft, review and editing. JZ data curation. XM conceptualization, supervision, review and editing, project administration, funding acquisition. LY data curation, review and editing. SZ designation of experiment. XJ conceptualization, supervision, review & editing, project administration, funding acquisition.

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Correspondence to Xinmiao Meng or Xiaodong Ji.

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Li, X., Zhou, J., Meng, X. et al. Research and prospects of bamboo bolts in China: state of the art. Eur. J. Wood Prod. 80, 1015–1038 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00107-022-01834-2

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