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Physical Aspects of Fruit Growth

Author(s) -

K. C. Brown,

John A. Considine

Publication year - 1982

Publication title -

plant physiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.554

H-Index - 312

eISSN - 1532-2548

pISSN - 0032-0889

DOI - 10.1104/pp.69.3.585

Subject(s) - lenticel , elasticity (physics) , cuticle (hair) , linear elasticity , materials science , composite material , ultimate tensile strength , stress (linguistics) , stress concentration , botany , structural engineering , biology , anatomy , engineering , fracture mechanics , linguistics , philosophy , finite element method

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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