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On the form and strength of trees: Part II the primary branches

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The main purpose of this note is to relate the shape of the branch to its strength and to explain by theory why a tree has a large number of branches.

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  1. Armour Research Foundation, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago

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Opatowski, I. On the form and strength of trees: Part II the primary branches. Bulletin of Mathematical Biophysics 6, 153–156 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02478432

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