| Summary: | The life cycle analysis (LCA) allows to evaluate the environmental impact in the different stages of a design/product. In the case of the material selection stage, among the raw materials that has a high environ-mental impact and energy consumption is the steel. In this context, this research studies the use of Pseudosasa amabilis (Tonkin bamboo) as a structural material and an Ecodesign strategy, it compares its environmental impact with that of steel in a redesign of a market stall for fruits and vegetables. To carry out the design process, the study worked under the Design for Sustainability (D4S) approach with the SolidWorks® tool, in which the detailed design has been developed, including the study of the static behavior and ACV, that is, the study of the sustainability of the structure within the framework of the new paradigm of the Circular Economy. The material selected for the redesign is a Tonkin bamboo, from a sampling that threw average data of 30 mm in diameter and thickness of 6 mm. The results obtained, theoretical-experimentally and whit the numerical simulation, confirm that the Tonkin bamboo, both in the finite element analysis (FEA) and in the sustainability study (ACV), is a material with excellent structural qualities as well as minimal environmental impact. For this reason, new lines of work are proposed and other research groups are invited to be interested in this unknown green material Los bambúes (bambusoieae) son plantas angiospermas perennes, familia herbácea de las poáceas (Liese 1998). Estas plantas crecen de forma nativa en todos los continentes excepto en Europa y la Antártida (Peña et al. 2015), existiendo más de 1250 especies en todo el mundo, aunque menos de 100 especies tienen propiedades para su uso estructural (Trujillo y López 2020). Entre ellas destacan las siguientes especies: Gua-dua(Guadua angustifolia Kunth) (América del Sur), Moso(Phyllostachys edulis) (China) y elbambú Gigante(Dendrocalamus asper). La distribución geográfica natural del bambú se concentra en la ...
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