Bachelor thesis Ariana Hargesheimer

In this bachelor thesis, irregular full cross-sections are to be examined using the example of tree cross-sections with regard to their geometry and the resulting resistances. Simplifications of the cross-sections as a circle or ellipse will be compared with calculations using Gauss’s area formula, based on geome- trically different tree cross-sections. It is shown that, depending on the tree cross-sections, a different simplification of each cross-section can make sense. In the case of trees with bulges, for example, the deviations in comparison with the method of determining the cross-section by means of Gauss’s area formula can be significantly larger than, for example, in the case of circular cross-sections. However, the measuring possibilities with the measuring device used here are limited.