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<p>The study dealt with the experimental and numerical assessment of the apple cultivar Golden Delicious (<italic>Malus domestica</italic> L.) at compressive loading in lateral direction. The development of fruit hemisphere behaviour was examined between two parallel plates. Apple samples were subjected to tests at different strain rates. The experiments were conducted at eleven velocities from 10 to 350 mm·min<sup>−1</sup> for the purposes of achieving different strain rates. Compression tests of the fruits at different strain rates corresponded to the quasi-state loading. Impacts of loading rate and strain rate on force and stress at compression were studied. The material exhibited nonlinear behaviour of dependency of stresses on strains, but linear viscoelastic behaviour of dependency of stresses on strain rate. The application possibilities of Kelvin-Voight viscoelastic model were evaluated. Forces, strains, stresses and the apparent moduli of elasticity were evaluated for the detection of fruit damage at different strain rates.</p>
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The study dealt with the experimental and numerical assessment of the apple cultivar Golden Delicious (Malus domestica L.) at compressive loading in lateral direction. The development of fruit hemisphere behaviour was examined between two parallel plates. Apple samples were subjected to tests at different strain rates. The experiments were conducted at eleven velocities from 10 to 350 mm·min−1 for the purposes of achieving different strain rates. Compression tests of the fruits at different strain rates corresponded to the quasi-state loading. Impacts of loading rate and strain rate on force and stress at compression were studied. The material exhibited nonlinear behaviour of dependency of stresses on strains, but linear viscoelastic behaviour of dependency of stresses on strain rate. The application possibilities of Kelvin-Voight viscoelastic model were evaluated. Forces, strains, stresses and the apparent moduli of elasticity were evaluated for the detection of fruit damage at different strain rates.

Compressive Loading of Apple Cultivar Golden Delicious

Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra

Acta Technologica Agriculturae

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The study dealt with the experimental and numerical assessment of the apple cultivar Golden Delicious (Malus domestica L.) at compressive loading in lateral...

Compressive Loading of Apple Cultivar Golden Delicious

Published Online: Aug 12, 2022

Page range: 144 - 149

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ata-2022-0022

Keywords
fruit behaviour, compression, strain rate, loading rate

© 2022 Ľubomír Kubík et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Compressive Loading of Apple Cultivar Golden Delicious

Published Online: Aug 12, 2022

Page range: 144 - 149

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ata-2022-0022

Keywordsfruit behaviour, compression, strain rate, loading rate

© 2022 Ľubomír Kubík et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
fruit behaviour, compression, strain rate, loading rate