Methodology for determining almond shaker displacement and frequency

Applied Engineering in Agriculture

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 141-144

  Abdel Fattah, Hassan M ^a   Shackel, Ken A ^a   Slaughter, David C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acceleration; Displacement; Frequency; Table shaker; Wavelet

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETERS; AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

TRIAXIAL ACCELEROMETERS;

HARVESTING;

PRUNUS DULCIS;

EID: 0038639596     PISSN: 08838542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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