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Under controlled conditions, this project will reproduce the varying sequences of soil moisture conditions experienced by a growing tree and attempt to replicate the climactic conditions thought to be partially-responsible for causing fractures in the wood of living trees. A portable Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) instrument is being used to visualise internal fluid distributions within the trees as a function of soil moisture content. These fluid distributions will help to develop and validate a fluid dynamics simulation of the tree’s water transportation system. This should enable us to calculate the stresses in the trees resulting from the moisture distributions, and therefore determine if cracking is likely to occur.
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This project was started in October 2016, with the intention to publish a thesis by October 2020.
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
Research Engineer
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