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Evidence for the strength function of rays in living trees

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We investigated the importance of ray tissue for the strength of living beech trees (Fagussylvatica L.). Observations on trees grown under controlled radial tensile loads and technological tests on transverse strengths as well as comparisons among radially stressed parts of trees in nature with control samples indicate that rays are a mechanically functional and adaptive tissue in the transverse plane of living trees.

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  1. Institute for Wood Biology, University of Hamburg Leuschnerstr. 91, D-21031 Hamburg, Germany, , , , , , DE

    I. Burgert & D. Eckstein

  2. Institute for Wood Physics and Mechanical Technology of Wood Federal Research Centre for Forestry and Forest Products Leuschnerstr. 91, D-21031 Hamburg, Germany, , , , , , DE

    A. Bernasconi

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Burgert, I., Bernasconi, A. & Eckstein, D. Evidence for the strength function of rays in living trees. Holz als Roh- und Werkstoff 57, 397–399 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/s001070050367

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