Mechanical properties of Japanese black pine (Pinus thunbergii Parl.) planted on coastal sand dunes: resistance to uprooting and stem breakage by tsunamis

Nanko, Kazuki; Suzuki, Satoru; Noguchi, Hironori; Ishida, Yoshiteru; Levia, Delphis F.; Ogura, Atsushi; Hagino, Hiroaki; Matsumoto, Hiroshi; Takimoto, H.; Sakamoto, Tetsuzo

doi:10.1007/s00226-019-01078-z

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“…In forestry and agriculture engineerings, various mechanical experiments were performed in order to improve production and handling equipments of crops (Amer Eissa et al 2008;Mou et al 2013;Zhang et al 2016;Aydin and Arslan 2018;Tian et al 2019), construct coastal forests against tsunamis (Nanko et al 2019), manage trees or assess forest stability protection (Lundstrom et al 2008;Özden and Ennos 2018). Compared with these works, the related studies on the eco-technological engineering for desertification control are limited.…”

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Tensile properties of six desert shrub species in Hobq Desert, China

Liu

Ning

Wang

2022

Israel J. Plant Sci.

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Desert shrubs are often planted to control wind erosion, land desertification, and desert expansion. Their motions of bending and vibration can absorb and disperse kinetic energy of wind, so as to protect the erodible surfaces close-by. According to continuum mechanics, the quantification of mechanical properties of shrubs is critical to understand their dynamic behaviors. In this study, the conventional tensile tests of six dominant desert shrub species’ stems mainly sampled in the Hobq Desert of China are performed. It is found that the tensile strength of Tamarix ramosissima and Hedysarum scoparium are larger than others, whereas Caragana korshinskii and Hippophae rhamnoides are more flexible. And then, it is theoretically and experimentally proved that the tensile strength and Young’s modulus of these desert shrubs both decrease with the increase of diameter.

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