[Strawbale] [Structural mesh &] Re: bamboo pinning

[Leanne Rellstab]

> As with any embedded tensile reinforcement (as in concrete or stucco
> apps), its tensile capacity doesn't begin to do any actual "reinforcing"
> of the plaster or concrete until the concrete or plaster has cracked.

I hadn't thought about it that way but you are right.

> By corollary, the tensile reinforcement will not provide any tensile
> resistance to the material it was intended to reinforce unless the
> reinforcement is fully embedded in the proper position within the cross
> section of the material that it was intended to reinforce.

I was having this exact discussion with my wife this very morning. The 
Welded wire mesh needs to imbedded in the plaster and properly stapled to 
the modified post and beam to have any real effect on shear strengths.

Doug