Physical Aspects of Fruit Growth: STRESS DISTRIBUTION AROUND LENTICELS
AUTOR(ES)
Brown, Ken
RESUMO
The skin around a lenticel on a soft fruit has been modelled as a thin elastic plate with a rigid circular inclusion and applied tensile loads at the edges. A solution for the stress distribution in the skin has then been found using the linear theory of elasticity. From that solution the severity of the stress concentration and the location and form of initial cuticular failure have been deduced, the latter two being in broad agreement with observed crack initiation in the cuticle of grapes.
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