Among renewable materials with low environmental impact bamboo stands out because of rapid growth, high tensile strength, low specific weight and flexibility. It is a natural composite anisotropic material with unidirectionally aligned long fibers, which is not widely used in civil construction yet due to lack of technical and scientific information. Bamboo is an intelligent material with the distribution of longitudinal fibers as functionally graded composite material (FGM). The objective of this work is to continue the study the behavior of bamboo for application to engineering works, which started at PUC-Rio in 1979. In this specific study was observed the behavior of Moso bamboo (Phyllostachys pubescens) through the experimental observation of pure torsion and bending (realized with utilization of image recognition system) and computer simulations in finite element program Abaqus. The tests were done for the whole bamboo specimens (1 meter long) and the same specimens were subsequently cracked in the middle extending the crack for each test until failure.