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Research on the Mechanical Properties of the Cassava Stem
1, 2Zhong Xue, 2Jin Zhang, 1Yanlin Zhang, 2Chengbin Li, 2Shi Chen and 2Dengqing Song
1College of Engineering and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
2Institute of Agricultural Machinery, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences,
Zhanjiang 524091, China
Advance Journal of Food Science and Technology 2016 10:763-769
Received: June 8, 2015 | Accepted: July 8, 2015 | Published: April 05, 2016
Abstract
The mechanical properties of the cassava stalk play an important role in the design of cassava harvesting and cassava stalk recycling machines. The mechanical properties were measured and analyzed under compression, shear and bending by physical methods for 205 cassava specimens from southern China. The results showed that the cassava stalk is an anisotropic material, its water content was 68.86% in the cassava harvest season, the mean axial compression strength was 1.51 MPa, mean radial compression strength was 0.76 MPa, the average axial and radial shear strengths were 0.32 MPa and 2.23 MPa, respectively and the radial bending strength was 5.94 MPa.
Keywords:
Bending, cassava stalk, compression, shear,
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The authors have no competing interests.
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