Biomechanics of trees: growth, anatomy and morphology
Trees are the largest and heaviest living beings that have ever lived on Earth. In order to achieve this, trees have wood, an exceptional structural material, and they offer several design strategies. This work is a review of the state of the art related to the strategies of growth, anatomy and morp...
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Instituto de Ecología, A.C.
2019
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| description | Trees are the largest and heaviest living beings that have ever lived on Earth. In order to achieve this, trees have wood, an exceptional structural material, and they offer several design strategies. This work is a review of the state of the art related to the strategies of growth, anatomy and morphology that use trees, highlighting general concepts related to structural aspects related to plant biomechanics. Moreover, this paper emphasizes the features of natural plant materials, which have a hierarchical organization, and in most cases are fiber-reinforced composite materials, materials with cellular structure, or both, such as wood. |
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| spelling | oai:oai.myb.ojs.inecol.mx:article-17122022-11-29T22:45:38Z Biomechanics of trees: growth, anatomy and morphology Biomecánica de los árboles: crecimiento, anatomía y morfología Vargas-Silva, Gustavo plant biomechanics plant materials structural behavior biomecánica de las plantas comportamiento estructural materiales vegetales Trees are the largest and heaviest living beings that have ever lived on Earth. In order to achieve this, trees have wood, an exceptional structural material, and they offer several design strategies. This work is a review of the state of the art related to the strategies of growth, anatomy and morphology that use trees, highlighting general concepts related to structural aspects related to plant biomechanics. Moreover, this paper emphasizes the features of natural plant materials, which have a hierarchical organization, and in most cases are fiber-reinforced composite materials, materials with cellular structure, or both, such as wood. Los árboles son los seres vivos más grandes y pesados que han poblado la Tierra. Para conseguirlo, cuentan con la madera (un material estructural excepcional) y con un sinnúmero de estrategias de diseño. Este trabajo es una revisión del estado del arte relacionada con las estrategias más importantes de crecimiento, anatomía y morfología que tienen los árboles, destacando conceptos generales relacionados con atributos estructurales que tienen que ver con la biomecánica de las plantas. Asimismo, este artículo resalta las características de los materiales naturales vegetales que poseen una organización jerárquica y que, en su mayoría, son materiales compuestos reforzados con fibras, materiales con estructura celular o ambos, como la madera. Instituto de Ecología, A.C. 2019-12-03 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Revisión bibliográfica evaluada por pares application/pdf application/xml https://myb.ojs.inecol.mx/index.php/myb/article/view/e2531712 10.21829/myb.2019.2531712 Madera y Bosques; Vol. 25 No. 3 (2019): Otoño 2019 Madera y Bosques; Vol. 25 Núm. 3 (2019): Otoño 2019 2448-7597 1405-0471 spa https://myb.ojs.inecol.mx/index.php/myb/article/view/e2531712/1984 https://myb.ojs.inecol.mx/index.php/myb/article/view/e2531712/2019 Derechos de autor 2019 Madera y Bosques |
| spellingShingle | Vargas-Silva, Gustavo Biomechanics of trees: growth, anatomy and morphology |
| title | Biomechanics of trees: growth, anatomy and morphology |
| title_full | Biomechanics of trees: growth, anatomy and morphology |
| title_fullStr | Biomechanics of trees: growth, anatomy and morphology |
| title_full_unstemmed | Biomechanics of trees: growth, anatomy and morphology |
| title_short | Biomechanics of trees: growth, anatomy and morphology |
| title_sort | biomechanics of trees: growth, anatomy and morphology |
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