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Wood - The Internal Optimization of Trees
Mattheck, Claus; Kubler, Hans
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Description for Wood - The Internal Optimization of Trees
Paperback. With more than 100 drawings, both beautiful and amusing, and with a lot of didactic skill the authors show that the interior architecture of trees is adapted to external loading in an optimum way. Wood quality is highest at places of maximum loading. Series: Springer Series in Wood Science. Num Pages: 143 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PSTD; TVR. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 7. Weight in Grams: 229.
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, ... Read more
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, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
Number of pages
143
Condition
New
Series
Springer Series in Wood Science
Number of Pages
131
Place of Publication
Berlin, Germany
ISBN
9783540620198
SKU
V9783540620198
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