Characterisation of claw-floor contact pressures for standing cattle and the dependency on concrete roughness

Biosystems Engineering

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 339-346

  De Belie, N ^a   Rombaut, E ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

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BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE;

EID: 0038799738     PISSN: 15375110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1537-5110(03)00064-3     Document Type: Article

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