Wood - The Internal Optimization of Trees

by Claus Mattheck

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3540620192
• ISBN13: 9783540620198
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 131 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.2" x 9.3"