This paper investigates the strength of reinforced fresh, reinforced dried and bamboos
without reinforcement subjected to static loading condition. Crushing strength test was
performed using uniaxial compression machine with maximum loading capacity of
1500 KN. The data is plotted as failure stress to height, specific compressive strength
with height, strength to weight ratio versus height, strength to volume ratio versus
height. Result shows that the strength increases as the height increases for all structures
analysed. All the bamboo structures exhibited elastic behaviour, but the reinforced fresh
bamboo showed higher elastic behavior to the transition point. The dried reinforced
bamboo proves to have the highest intrinsic strength beyond the transition point. Failure
stress to weight ratio also decreases with increases with height for all cases of the
structures. The specific compressive strength of both non-reinforced fresh and dried has
an appreciable increased up to a transition point and then it decreased with increased
with height. Failure stress proves that the strength of reinforced dried bamboo increases
with increases in height. Conclusively, the reinforced dried bamboo can withstand
higher compressive load than the rest of the bamboo structures