The role of material properties for the mechanical adaptation at branch junctions

Trees - Structure and Function

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 605-610

  Jungnikl, Karin ^a   Goebbels, Jürgen ^b   Burgert, Ingo ^a   Fratzl, Peter ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF COLLOIDS AND INTERFACES   (Germany)

^b BAM FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS RESEARCH AND TESTING   (Germany)

Author keywords

Branch junction; Computer tomography (CT); Microfibril angle (MFA); Notch stresses; Wide angle X ray scattering (WAXS)

Indexed keywords

BRANCH JUNCTION; COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY (CT); MICROFIBRIL ANGLE (MFA); NOTCH STRESSES; WIDE ANGLE X-RAY SCATTERING (WAXS);

ARCH BRIDGES; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; TOMOGRAPHY; X RAY SCATTERING;

SCATTERING;

EID: 67650002759     PISSN: 09311890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00468-008-0305-9     Document Type: Article

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