Assessment of the mechanical properties of Tarocco orange fruit under parallel plate compression

Journal of Food Engineering

Volumn 103, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 308-316

  Pallottino, Federico ^a,b   Costa, Corrado ^a   Menesatti, Paolo ^a   Moresi, Mauro ^b  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DELLA NUTRIZIONE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TUSCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bounding box; Effective contact area; Elliptic Fourier Analysis; Engineering strain; Image analysis; Modulus of deformability; Parallel plate compression test; Tarocco orange fruit

Indexed keywords

BOUNDING BOX; DEFORMABILITY; EFFECTIVE CONTACT; ENGINEERING STRAIN; FOURIER; ORANGE FRUITS; PARALLEL PLATES;

COMPRESSION TESTING; DEFORMATION; ESTIMATION; FOURIER ANALYSIS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; GEOMETRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; POISSON RATIO; STRAIN;

FRUITS;

EID: 78650724796     PISSN: 02608774     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfoodeng.2010.10.029     Document Type: Article

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