Nicholas Davies edited method.tex  over 7 years ago

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Where S is the stocking rate, assumed to be either open grown, one stem per hectare or 741 stems per hectare.  As trees grow, the newest cells are superimposed on the existing structure, creating a time evolving stress state. In order to acomidate these time dependent changes, the mesh needs to be 'grown', here time is treated in descrete steps. Wind effects are not acounted for during growth, however, self weight and growth stress are.