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The chicken bone which you nibbled and threw away yesterday was a high-tech product! In fact it was a superlative light-weight design functionally adapted to the mechanical requirements. No engineer in the world has as yet been able to copy this structural member, which is excellently optimized in its external shape and its internal architecture as regards minimum weight and maximum strength. The tree trunk on which you recently carved your initials has also over the course of its life, steadily improved its internal and external structure and adapted itself optimally to new loads. In the course of its biomechanical self-optimization, it will heal the notch you cut as speedily as possible, in order to repair even the smallest weak point, which might otherwise cost it its life in the next storm. This book is dedicated to the understanding of this biomechanical optimization of shape. And not only that: With the knowledge of these perfect processes of self-optimization in nature, techniques for the improvement of mechanical structural members could be developed. Industry already uses them. Nature shows us the way to eco-design, to machines in accordance with nature's laws governing structures and shapes. CLAUS MATTHECK: Born in Dresden, Germany in 1947. Study of physics in Dresden, PhD in theoretical physics in 1973. Habilitation in the field of damage control in 1985. Lectures on biomechanics at the University of Karlsruhe. Head of the Department of Biomechanics of the Research Centre in Karlsruhe, where the results described in this book were obtained. Several awards in science and literature.

Architecture. --- Engineering. --- Engineering design. --- Software engineering. --- Trees. --- Biomechanics --- Trees --- Biology --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Biophysics --- Mechanical properties --- Biomechanics. --- Mechanical properties. --- 681.3*J3 --- 57.018.2 --- 57.018.2 Form. Shape --- Form. Shape --- 681.3*J3 Life and medical sciences (Computer applications) --- Life and medical sciences (Computer applications) --- Biomécanique --- Arbres --- Propriétés mécaniques --- Dendrology --- Nursery stock --- Woody plants --- Arboriculture --- Forests and forestry --- Timber --- Biological mechanics --- Mechanical properties of biological structures --- Mechanics --- Contractility (Biology) --- Biophysics. --- Biological physics. --- Engineering Design. --- Tree Biology. --- Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics. --- Engineering, general. --- Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems. --- Architecture, general. --- Design, Engineering --- Engineering --- Industrial design --- Strains and stresses --- Architecture, Western (Western countries) --- Building design --- Buildings --- Construction --- Western architecture (Western countries) --- Art --- Building --- Computer software engineering --- Industrial arts --- Technology --- Biological physics --- Medical sciences --- Physics --- Design --- Design and construction

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Here are two physicists looking over the fence of physics, getting thrilled by the life and growth of trees, taking an altogether different, exciting view of wood: trees produce wood for their own benefit. They do not live for the benefit of man who builds his world using wood as a raw material. Timber is revealed in a different light, and the reader is taught to stop thinking of it in terms of defective beams and boards. Wood only fails as a part of the living tree. To us, the tree and wood biologists, this new definition is a real, inspiring challenge, which is just what Kubler and Mattheck intended it to be. Their answers may seem too simple or little logical to some of us; but the authors are not at a loss for sound and solid arguments. Their field studies prove the incredible, their hypotheses makes us want to get to the bottom of the un­ proven unbelievable. The authors' answers and arguments are bold and cour­ ageous. They arouse our curiosity and force us to fathom the facts. It seems as if Kubler and Mattheck wanted to trick us into believing that trees only live and react following mechanical rules and strategies. To tell the truth, that was what I first suspected the authors of: but I was wrong.

Wood. --- Wood --- Trees --- Mechanical properties. --- Botany --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Plant Anatomy --- Mechanical properties --- Plante ornementale ligneuse --- Période de croissance --- Growth period --- Résistance mécanique --- Strength --- Port de la plante --- Plant habit --- Conduite de la plante --- Plant training --- Régulation physiologique --- Physiological regulation --- Ornamental woody plants --- forest trees --- wood anatomy --- Plant response --- cultural methods --- Dendrology --- Building materials --- Forest products --- Timber --- Nursery stock --- Woody plants --- Arboriculture --- Forests and forestry --- Agriculture. --- Forestry. --- Biophysics. --- Biological physics. --- Plant science. --- Botany. --- Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics. --- Plant Sciences. --- Botanical science --- Phytobiology --- Phytography --- Phytology --- Plant biology --- Plant science --- Biology --- Natural history --- Plants --- Biological physics --- Medical sciences --- Physics --- Forest land --- Forest lands --- Forest planting --- Forest production --- Forest sciences --- Forestation --- Forested lands --- Forestland --- Forestlands --- Forestry --- Forestry industry --- Forestry sciences --- Land, Forest --- Lands, Forest --- Silviculture --- Sylviculture --- Woodlands --- Woods (Forests) --- Agriculture --- Natural resources --- Afforestation --- Logging --- Tree crops --- Farming --- Husbandry --- Industrial arts --- Life sciences --- Food supply --- Land use, Rural --- Floristic botany

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TREES --- HANDBOOKS --- FAILURE --- ANALYSIS

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Dit boek is gewijd aan de gevaren die uit kunnen gaan van bomen. Het geeft aan hoe een boom breekt, waarom deze soms veel te vroeg breekt en hoe de boom hiervoor tekenen geeft. Ja werkelijk, in de meeste gevallen geeft de boom stilzwijgend een teken in zijn eigen lichaamstaal. Vele breukplaatsen van bomen worden door uiterlijke symptomen zichtbaar gemaakt. Dit boek geeft de inleiding tot deze lichaamstaal, leert deze symptomen te verstaan, zelfs hoe deze biomechanisch in te schatten.

638 --- 635.055 --- Boomverzorging --- 12.01 --- Preventie ; Algemeen --- Basic Sciences. Biophysics --- Biomechanics --- dendrology --- 502 --- 502 Nature. Nature study and conservation. Nature and wildlife protection --- Nature. Nature study and conservation. Nature and wildlife protection --- Botany --- Environmental law --- Classical mechanics. Field theory --- Biomechanics.