With few exceptions, terrestrial plants are anchored to substrates by roots that experience
bending and twisting forces resulting from gravity-and wind-induced forces. Mechanical …

Manual harvesting of fruits is an expensive, time‐consuming, and labor‐intensive operation.
Due to labor shortages in the late 1950s, mechanical harvesters were developed to reduce …

Tree stability in windstorms and tree failure are important issues in urban areas where there
can be risks of damage to people and property and in forests where wind damage causes …

Plant vibrations is a wide subject that covers topics ranging from the swaying of trees under
wind to elastic waves made by an insect on a leaf to communicate with its neighbors. For this …

To further understand the mechanics of trees under dynamic loads, we recorded damped
oscillations of a Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) tree and of its stem without branches …

Tree biomechanics studies using dynamic methods of analysis are reviewed. The emphasis
in this review is on the biomechanics of open-grown trees typically found in urban areas …

Oscillation damping is of vital importance for trees to withstand strong gusty winds. Tree
adaptation to wind loading takes place over a long time and during a storm only passive …

The mechanical harvesting of fruit for oil production in an intensive olive tree orchard is
generally accomplished by applying vibration to the tree's trunk. This vibration is …

The application of vibration in the mechanical harvesting of fruit trees is a determining factor
to achieve fruit detachment. The acceleration required to do so is experimentally determined …

Catastrophic winds from tropical cyclones and storms cause tree failure in forests, leading to
economic and environmental losses. Tree failure, especially uprooting, results from energy …