Elastic stresses and plastic deformations in 'Santa Clara' tomato fruits caused by package dependent compression
The objective of this work was to study the fruit compression behavior aiming to develop new tomato packages. Deformations caused by compression forces were observed inside packages and in individual 'Santa Clara' tomato fruit. The forces applied by a transparent acrylic lever to the fruit...
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| Language: | English |
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Embrapa Informação Tecnológica
2000-01-01
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| Series: | Pesquisa Agropecuária Brasileira |
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| Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-204X2000001200014 |