Fig. 2From: Cross-sectional geometry predicts failure location in maize stalksBlock diagram illustrating the steps used in a custom optimization algorithm that computationally redistributed the structural biomass of stalks to achieve uniform mechanical stresses. As shown in the block diagram the algorithm iteratively/incrementally removed biomass from the least-stressed internodes and added biomass to most-stressed internodes until the solution converged (i.e., until all internodes’ stresses were within 5% of each other)Back to article page