The heat resistance of bamboo fibers is extremely good. The thermal resistance of fibers is increased by reinforcing it with epoxy resins (Shih 2007). The chemically modified water bamboo fibers when reinforced with biodegradable PBS show an improvement in thermal resistance of the resultant composite (Shih et al. 2006). Cotton/bamboo fiber composites when subjected to heat reveal that as the concen­tration of bamboo increases, their thermal conductivity reduces and resistance increases (Majumdar et al. 2010). Thermogravimetric analysis reveals that thermal stability of polypropylene bamboo/glass fiber reinforced hybrid composites increases as the amount of bamboo increases in the composite (Nayak et al. 2009).

2.4.6 Weight

Bamboo fibers are lightweight fibers and due to this property they can be used for the formation of composites (Rao and Rao 2007). Bamboo fiber strips when treated with sodium hydroxide solution show that increase in the percent of alkali results in decreasing the weight of strips (Das et al. 2006). Bamboo fibers have high strength to weight ratio. This ratio can be increased by reforming the bamboo (Yao and Li 2003). Increase in bamboo weight is directly related to aging (Li 2004).