Abstract
The mechanical properties of the cassava stalk play an important role in the design of cassava harvesting and cassava stalk recycling machines. The mechanical properties were measured and analyzed under compression, shear and bending by physical methods for 205 cassava specimens from southern China. The results showed that the cassava stalk is an anisotropic material, its water content was 68.86% in the cassava harvest season, the mean axial compression strength was 1.51 MPa, mean radial compression strength was 0.76 MPa, the average axial and radial shear strengths were 0.32 MPa and 2.23 MPa, respectively and the radial bending strength was 5.94 MPa.
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