Articles tagged “Slenderness”

Slenderness of branches is not a useful criterion for stability

Tue 13 October 2015 · Tree Assessment

Almost all branches in urban trees exceed the slenderness criterion of VTA. A criterion, which identifies almost all branches in every tree as dangerous is not useful for hazard tree assessment.

Analysis of regional variation of height growth and slenderness in populations of six urban tree species using a quantile regression approach

Wed 03 June 2015 · Tree Assessment

Our data do not support the use of a threshold value of slenderness in tree risk assessment.

A field study on slenderness and tree failure

Wed 03 June 2015 · Tree Assessment

In spruce, the effect of slenderness on maximum bending moments is negligible.

About

Steffen Rust is Professor of Arboriculture at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Göttingen, Germany. His main fields of research are non-destructive methods for tree risk assessment and tree water relations. He is one of the developers of stress wave tomography for trees. Recent studies concentrate on ground penetrating radar, electrical resistivity tomography for stems and root systems, as well as static pulling tests, analysis of tree vibration, and the application of artificial intelligence in tree risk assessment.