Mattheck Claus (78 results)

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Series: Rombach Wissenschaft Reihe Ökologie. 242p large paperback, green illustrated cover, colour illustrations throughout, a fresh clean copy, name to prelims, no stamps or library markings Language: German.

Soft cover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. 208pp. Paperback. Colour drawings throughout. In Claus Mattheck's intimitable style, and with the assistance of Pauli the bear, this book introduces the mechanics of failure, explaining how loading is always at war with material and form, alerts you to the weak places in structures, and shows how damage can be avoided by careful shaping. Although the problems are engineering the applications are - of course! - to trees in many cases, and the book will be of use to arboriculturists.

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Softcover. Condition: Fair. Unterschrift / Widmung ohne Bezug. 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.

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Softcover. Condition: gut. Auflage: 1 (1. Juli 2011). The book is a simple introduction into the design rules of nature. It teaches also a simple mechanical way of thinking without any formulae. It presents three easy thinking tools, which can be used for failure analysis, for design of components according to the design rules of nature, which are light weight, more durable- better!! If you have studied this book your surrounding will start to speak to you in the silent language of forms and shapes- wether in nature or engineering. It is folk mechanics and nature observation for everybody! Folk mechanics for all Understand and learn to see the language of forms in nature. Explain, without using formulae, ultimate failure in nature and engineering. Components designed with thinking Tools after nature - easier, more stable, better. The book is very interesting, and full of practical information. I think that other readers will find it useful as well. Zusatzinfo zahlr. farb. Abbildungen Sprache englisch Maße 190 x 210 mm Einbandart Englisch Broschur bionics Bionomics Failure Nature Design shape optimization ISBN-10 3-923704-75-5 / 3923704755 ISBN-13 978-3-923704-75-0 / 9783923704750 Thinking Tools after Nature (Englisch) von Claus Mattheck (Autor) Karlsruher Institut für Technologie KIT In englischer Sprache. 248 pages. 19 x 1,5 x 21 cm.

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Softcover. Condition: gut. Auflage:2. Claus Mattheck, geb. 1947, Promotion in Theoretischer Physik 1973, Habilitation im Fach Schadenskunde an der Universität Karlsruhe 1985, lehrt dort als apl. Professor. Seit 1991 öffentlich bestellter und vereidigter Sachverständiger für Mechanik und Bruchverhalten der Bäume. Träger zahlreicher Preise für Forschung und Publikation. Leiter der Abteilung Biomechanik am Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe. In deutscher Sprache. 242 pages. 22,6 x 15,4 x 1,8 cm.

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Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. IV page introduction, 548 pages, Although borrowing part of the title from the earlier edition, and essentially applying the same principles and style as other books by Mattheck, the author sees this as a new work. It updates and revises the earlier book, summarising results from tree research carried out at the Karlsruhe Research Centre (now KIT) over the last 25 years. To paraphrase Claus's own words, .it aims to promote deeper understanding of the body language of trees. The method of tree inspection described has been verified by computerized methods and field studies. It is the basis of many court decisions and is used all over the world. The book is in full colour throughout with a mixture of photographs and coloured diagrams and is over 500 pages long. Drawings and text are by Claus in co-operation with Klaus Bethge and Karlheinz Weber. This English language version has been translated from the Gerrman by Ralf Friese. One quarter of the book comprises a section on wood decay fungi. An index and bibliography are provided.

Paperback. Condition: New. Interest in trees, whether in our streets, parks or forests, has in- creasedconsiderablyin thelast 20 years or so.One reason for this has been the decline and dying of forests, which caused great concern about our environment during the 1980s. Because ofthe prominenceofthis event,which is nowblamedon abiotic factors, it is all too easyto forget that the life oftrees is also affected by a multitude of biotic factors: viruses, bacteria, fungi and animals. These may have very different relationships with trees, but are usually deleterious. The fungi playa particularlyimportant part, and during the course of their evolution they have developed various abilities and strategies in order to obtain nutrients and energy by decomposing wood. On the other hand, the tree has 'learned' to react to external and internal infections. The various interactions between fungi and trees form the main themeofthis book.In reviewing this new book I was involuntarily reminded of a work by Robert Hartig over a century ago, entitled Die Zerset- zungserscheinungen des Holzes der Nadelbiiume und der Eiche in forstlicher, botanischer und chemischer Richtung, which laid the foundation of mycological and pathological research on wood. Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2000.

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Condition: New. pp. 204.

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Paperback. Condition: New. 1998 ed. The chicken bone you nibbled yesterday and threw away was a high-tech product! Not only that: it was a superlative light-weight design, functionally adapted to its 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 stem on which you recently carved your initials has also, by life-long care for its body, steadily improved its internal and external structure and adapted optimally to new loads. In the course of its biomechanical self-optimization it will heal up 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. It is the synthesis of many years of extensive research using the latest computer methods at the Karlsruhe Research Centre to help understand the mechanism of biological self-optimization (adaptive growth) and to simulate it by computer. The method newly developed for this purpose was called CAO (Computer-Aided Optimization). With this method, it is possible to predict the growth of trees, bones and other biological structures from the tiger's claw to the sea urchin's skeleton.

Condition: New. pp. xiv + 276 1st Edition.

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paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Condition: New. pp. 144.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Design in Nature | Learning from Trees | Claus Mattheck | Taschenbuch | Einband - flex.(Paperback) | Englisch | 1998 | Springer-Verlag GmbH | EAN 9783540629375 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Spektrum-Akademischer Vlg, Slevogtstr. 3-5, 69126 Heidelberg, productsafety[at]springernature[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -The chicken bone you nibbled yesterday and threw away was a high-tech product! Not only that: it was a superlative light-weight design, functionally adapted to its 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 stem on which you recently carved your initials has also, by life-long care for its body, steadily improved its internal and external structure and adapted optimally to new loads. In the course of its biomechanical self-optimization it will heal up 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. It is the synthesis of many years of extensive research using the latest computer methods at the Karlsruhe Research Centre to help understand the mechanism of biological self-optimization (adaptive growth) and to simulate it by computer. The method newly developed for this purpose was called CAO (Computer-Aided Optimization). With this method, it is possible to predict the growth of trees, bones and other biological structures from the tiger's claw to the sea urchin's skeleton. 292 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - The chicken bone you nibbled yesterday and threw away was a high-tech product! Not only that: it was a superlative light-weight design, functionally adapted to its 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 stem on which you recently carved your initials has also, by life-long care for its body, steadily improved its internal and external structure and adapted optimally to new loads. In the course of its biomechanical self-optimization it will heal up 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. It is the synthesis of many years of extensive research using the latest computer methods at the Karlsruhe Research Centre to help understand the mechanism of biological self-optimization (adaptive growth) and to simulate it by computer. The method newly developed for this purpose was called CAO (Computer-Aided Optimization). With this method, it is possible to predict the growth of trees, bones and other biological structures from the tiger's claw to the sea urchin's skeleton.

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Paperback. Condition: New. Interest in trees, whether in our streets, parks or forests, has in- creasedconsiderablyin thelast 20 years or so.One reason for this has been the decline and dying of forests, which caused great concern about our environment during the 1980s. Because ofthe prominenceofthis event,which is nowblamedon abiotic factors, it is all too easyto forget that the life oftrees is also affected by a multitude of biotic factors: viruses, bacteria, fungi and animals. These may have very different relationships with trees, but are usually deleterious. The fungi playa particularlyimportant part, and during the course of their evolution they have developed various abilities and strategies in order to obtain nutrients and energy by decomposing wood. On the other hand, the tree has 'learned' to react to external and internal infections. The various interactions between fungi and trees form the main themeofthis book.In reviewing this new book I was involuntarily reminded of a work by Robert Hartig over a century ago, entitled Die Zerset- zungserscheinungen des Holzes der Nadelbiiume und der Eiche in forstlicher, botanischer und chemischer Richtung, which laid the foundation of mycological and pathological research on wood. Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2000.