The value and quality of fruit are reduced both through injury by crushing the pulp tissue as well as strains and deviations from the characteristic geometric shape of the fruit, due to major production of the two forms (types) of mechanical defects in apples is static compression as they are subject to packaging (containers) due to the weight of the upper ranks, during periods of storage - warehousing - transport.
The static compressive forces were evaluated, producing either cruses of the tissue of the fruit, or geometric shape changing characteristic, based on the application in a first approximation of the theory of Hertz bodies with convex surfaces, with applications to apples (apple - apple, apple - rigid flat surface).
On this basis has developed a methodology for determination - evaluating pack height (container) for storage - warehousing, provided that the fruit in the bottom of the pack does not suffer mechanical defects. | 
