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'Secret Design Rules of Nature' Optimum shapes without computers
Author: Claus Mattheck (english)
1. Edition ISBN-10: 3923704682 ISBN-13: 978-3923704538 The Author: He likes hiking, large calibre weapons, archery Staffordshire bull terriers and trees, trees, trees... Claus Mattheck, born in Dresden, Germany 1947. Graduated in Theoretical Physics1973, qualified to lecture in Damage Tree Analysis at Karlsruhe University in 1985 and now lectures on biomechnics as professor.Head of the Department of Biomechanics at the Institute for Material Research II of the Karlsruhe Research Center, expert on the mechanics and fracture behaviour of trees and on fatigue fractures of mechanical components. Many scientific awards, including the Science Award of the Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences in 1998, the Literature Award of the Karl-Theodor-Vogel-Foundation for technical journalism in 1992, the Inge & Werner Grüter Award for science journalism in 1999; honorary membership of the Urban Tree Diagnosis Association of Japan and the German Environmental Award 2003.
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