Cell wall elastic constitutive laws and stress-strain behavior of plant vegetative tissue

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Gates, R.S.^a | Pitt, R.E.^b | Ruina, A.^c | Cooke, J.R.^b

Affiliations: [a] Department of Agricultural Engineering, University of Kentucky 40546, U.S.A. | [b] Department of Agricultural Engineering, Cornell University 14853, U.S.A. | [c] Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Cornell University, 14853, U.S.A.

Note: [] Accepted by: Editor R. Skalak

Abstract: The appropriateness of several elastic constitutive laws for apple and potato cell walls is tested using uniform cell inflation data. Whole-tissue stress-strain behavior under uniaxial loading is predicted from an analysis of the compression of a conglomerate of cells in a simple arrangement.

Keywords: vegetative tissue, elastic constitutive laws

DOI: 10.3233/BIR-1986-23503

Journal: Biorheology, vol. 23, no. 5, pp. 453-466, 1986