Abstract
A German forester (Metzger 1893) found that the tapering typical of spruce trees will ensure a uniform distribution of the surface bending stresses, if the stem diameter, D, is cubical relative to the distance, h, from the effective point of application of the wind load (Fig. 23).
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Mattheck, C., Kubler, H. (1997). The Axiom of Uniform Stress. In: Wood - The Internal Optimization of Trees. Springer Series in Wood Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-61219-0_5
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