| Description |
xvii, 181 leaves : illustrations ; 30 cm |
| Summary |
The main consideration in recovering the macadamia kernal is to crack the spherical nutshell without damaging the kernal. Five mechanical cracking tools were tested, and the fracture mechanisms of nutshells, under various cracking loads, were studied. A classical theoretical approach and a numerical method were both used to investigate the influence of crack face closure on the stress intensity factor for a cracked spherical shell subjected to membrane forces and bending moments |
| Notes |
Submitted to the School of Engineering and Technology of the Faculty of Science and Technology, Deakin University |
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Deakin University, Victoria, 1998 |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: leaves 165-186 |
| Subject |
Fracture mechanics.
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Macadamia nut -- Processing.
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| Genre/Form |
Academic theses.
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| Author |
Deakin University. Faculty of Science and Technology.
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Deakin University. School of Engineering and Technology
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