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The Hen's egg: Variation in tensile strength of shell material and its relationship with shearing strength

T. C. Carter Agricultural Research Council's, Poultry Research Centre, King's Buildings, West Mains Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3JS, Scotland
Pages 57-76 | Published online: 08 Nov 2007

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T. C. Carter. (1978) The hen's egg: Shell breakage when two eggs collide. British Poultry Science 19:3, pages 373-386.
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T. C. Carter. (1978) The hen's egg: Shell fracture under quasi‐static and static loading. British Poultry Science 19:2, pages 249-259.
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G. B. Anderson & T. C. Carter. (1976) The hen's egg: Shell cracking at impact on a heavy, stiff body and factors that affect it. British Poultry Science 17:6, pages 613-626.
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T. C. Carter. (1976) The hen's EGG: Shell forces at impact and quasi‐static compression. British Poultry Science 17:2, pages 199-214.
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T. C. Carter. (1975) The hen's egg: Relationships of seven characteristics of the strain of hen to the incidence of cracks and other shell defects. British Poultry Science 16:3, pages 289-296.
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L. H. Nelson & J. M. Henderson. (1975) A study of the mechanical properties of egg shell. British Poultry Science 16:3, pages 225-239.
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T. C. Carter. (1975) The hen's egg: A rapid method for routine estimation of flock mean shell thickness. British Poultry Science 16:2, pages 131-143.
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D. A. Stewart. (1973) A computer study of egg shell forces at impact on cage floors. British Poultry Science 14:5, pages 431-444.
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T. G. Carter. (1972) The hen's egg: Factors affecting shell splitting during boiling. British Poultry Science 13:4, pages 341-355.
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T. C. Carter. (1971) The hen's egg: Shell cracking at oviposition in battery cages and its inheritance. British Poultry Science 12:2, pages 259-278.
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Carina B. Tanaka, Yuxuan Zhou, Bernd Gludovatz & Jamie J. Kruzic. (2020) Anisotropic fracture resistance of avian eggshell. Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials 110, pages 103888.
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B.K. THOMPSON, R.M.G. HAMILTON & PETER W. VOISEY. (1981) Relationships Among Various Egg Traits Relating to Shell Strength Among and Within Five Avian Species. Poultry Science 60:11, pages 2388-2394.
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I.L. STEVENSON, PETER W. VOISEY & R.M.G. HAMILTON. (1981) Scanning Electron Microscopy of Fractures in Eggshells Subjected to the Puncture Test. Poultry Science 60:1, pages 89-97.
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R. G. Board, S. G. Tullett & H. R. Perrott. (2009) An arbitrary classification of the pore systems in avian eggshells. Journal of Zoology 182:2, pages 251-265.
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Malik M. Ahmad, G.W. Froning, F.B. Mather & L.L. Bashford. (1976) Relationships of Egg Specific Gravity and Shell Thickness to Quasi-static Compression Tests. Poultry Science 55:4, pages 1282-1289.
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L.H. Nelson & J.M. Henderson. (1974) Techniques for measuring eggshell strength. Journal of Agricultural Engineering Research 19:4, pages 391-400.
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PETER W. VOISEY & J. R. HUNT. (2007) MEASUREMENT OF EGGSHELL STRENGTH*. Journal of Texture Studies 5:2, pages 135-182.
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N. R. King & D. S. Robinson. (2011) The use of the scanning electron microscope for comparing the structure of weak and strong egg shells. Journal of Microscopy 95:3, pages 437-443.
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