TSE Highlights

Calculations for stability and safety against fracture in one examination process
Clear and understandable safety evaluation
Systematic, engineering-level procedures
Transparency throughout the process, since all interim values are clearly evident
Tried and tested in practice and adjusted to measuring instruments for tensile tests

Tree Stability Evaluation (TSE) is a calculation programme for evaluation of stability and safety against fracture of trees by means of tensile tests. With the help of the TSE calculation programme the sensor-measured data collected from the tensile test are calculated in relation to the estimated wind load in order to obtain safety-related information about the respective tree.

TSE combines a transparent calculation procedure with clear user navigation and thus reduces complexity of evaluation of the measured data in tensile tests for detailed examinations of trees. For experts, the results provide a clear and understandable basis for definition and evaluation of both the stability and the safety against fracture of the analysed tree.

The additional benefit TSE provides for its users:

Intensive training of users
Annual security training
Optional: Integration of Dynatim-ArboPull sensors for automatic exchange of measured data with TSE, specific user training
E-Mail user support
Read-only participation in the ITEG expert forum

TSE users are contributing to the future development of TSE:

Anonymised data from the tensile test are transmitted to the TSE database. The reason for this is to contribute to the improvement of the TSE databasis as well as to the future development of the tensile test technique by using statistical surveys. Thus, through the evaluation of the measured data the Stuttgarter Festigungskatalog [study on dynamic measurements of green wood] and the generalised tilting curve can be revised and, eventually, amended.

TSE allows the storage of measurement data from 10 tensile tests. If you want to conduct further calculations, the anonymised data have to be transmitted to the TSE database Afterwards, the program can be used for further calculations.

By transmitting measurement data to the TSE database, TSE users contribute to future improvements of TSE and make sure that TSE meets their requirements in the best way.

Additionally, TSE users have the chance to become a member of the tree expert association Independent Tree Expert Group (ITEG) and benefit in various ways:

Intensive training in the field of tree statics as “ITEG Tree Statics Expert”
ITEG mentoring service provides practice-oriented support and closes knowledge gaps in tree statics
Clarification of open questions among expert colleagues in the ITEG expert forum
Intensive exchange of experience among experts on a national and international level at meetings
Sustainable discussion of cases, including provision of problem solutions from the manufacturers’ side in the ITEG forum

Application of TSE with the Dynatim measurement sensors that were specially developed for tensile tests is widely tried and tested in practice. Together with TSE, the sensor technology that was developed and optimised for in-field application according to instructions and practical experience of Bodo SIEGERT, who later invented TSE, represents a robust system for measuring and evaluation of tensile test data.

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