Strength characteristics of fruit tree bark

R. B. Fridley, G. K. Brown and P. A. Adrian

Hilgardia, 1970, vol. 40, issue 8

Abstract: Mechanical harvesting of fruit trees by shaking their primary limbs or trunks has sometimes been responsible for injury to the trees at the point where shaking equipment is attached. Such injuries often result in infection by the fungus Ceratocystis fimbriata. In the present study, research was conducted to determine the strength of tree bark so as to evaluate its ability to resist injury caused by forces applied radially, tangentially, or longitudinally to the limb. The maximum radial stress which could be exerted on the bark of trees tested without damage which can lead to Ceratocystis canker was found to be in the range of 500 to 1000 psi, whereas the maximum tangential and longitudinal stresses were only about one-third or one-fourth as strong. Low strengths were generally associated with high moisture conditions, young tree age, and growing cambium.

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Date: 1970
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