Effect of Drying Methods in the Resistence Strength Compression Parallel Test For Bamboo ALYSSON Klebis Arantes 1,a and CLÁUDIO De Conti 3,b , SÔNIA Maria Esposte Sturaro 1,c and ANDREA Cressoni De Conti 2,d 1 State Sao Paulo Technology Faculty - FATEC – Capão Bonito, SP, Brazil 2 Campus Experimental de Rosana, UNESP – Univ. Estadual Paulista, 19.274-000, Rosana, SP, Brazil 3 Campus Experimental de Itapeva, UNESP – Univ. Estadual Paulista, 18.409-010, Itapeva, SP, Brazil a alysson_416@hotmail.com, b conti@itapeva.unesp.br, c sonia_esposte@hotmail.com, d andrea@rosana.unesp.br Keywords: Drying, fire, kiln drying, outdoor drying Abstract. Bamboo has three drying methods: open air drying; fire drying and kiln-drying. This work was carried out three drying methods for the three bamboo species: Dendrocalamus giganteus, Bambusa vulgaris vittata variation and Phyllostachys pubescens. We also analyzed the quality of the dried bamboo for cracks and used the parallel compression test in order to find which kind of bamboo showed higher strength in the parallel compression test to the fibers. We observed that the species showed cracks in the process of kiln drying, and changing color in the kiln drying and fire drying. Compared to open air drying, all species showed an absence of drying defects. We analysed the parallel compression test and the kiln drying was the best result presented for Phyllostachys pubescens and Dendrocalamus giganteus species. Introduction Of all the renewable materials used in green building, such as houses, scaffolds, greenhouses, when we compare with the others species, the bamboo is known for being low-cost, low-polluting, resistance compared to steel, it has been considered easy and planting fast-growing, and also to meet different bioclimatic characteristics and be found throughout the national territory [2, 8, 12, 13]. The depletion of natural resources of several essences timber of traditional use associated with wood increased in urban and rural civil constructions (fences, enclosures, folds, scaffolding, among others) has demanded the search for alternative materials. [7, 10, 15, 16]. Bamboo fibers are known for their excellent mechanical properties and can be a potential replacement for synthetic fibers used in fiber reinforced Composites [3, 5, 9]. Furthermore, the bamboo fiber is also excellent raw material for the pulp and paper though it shuns the standard in various aspects, such as the difficulty of removing pulp. Your forest yield is competitive as eucalyptus, but its growth is so fast that allows crops each year selective logging or at least every two years against a shallow cut waiting period of six to seven years of eucalyptus and 15 to 20 years of the pine. [4, 14]. In engineering terms, it is noted interest with the possibility of use of bamboo as structural columns, beams and trusses. While little is known about the stress distribution during a given load condition, mainly because obtaining deformations is presented as a complication, the most responsible for the concentration of the node voltages. [16]. The bamboo structure has been characterized by tensile tests and mechanical properties have been related to its structure. [1, 3], and for draft structure the knowledge of the bamboo mechanical tests behavior and their elasticity constant is required [11, 6]. Advanced Materials Research Vol. 1088 (2015) pp 664-668 Submitted: 07.11.2014 © (2015) Trans Tech Publications, Switzerland Accepted: 13.11.2014 doi:10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.1088.664 All rights reserved. No part of contents of this paper may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without the written permission of TTP, www.ttp.net. (ID: 201.42.152.223-27/01/15,15:40:16)