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[pagination corrected, analytical bookmarks added]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 newl

Who reads Design in Nature : Learning From Trees?

Author

Mattheck, Claus

Publisher

Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer

Published

1998

Language

EN

ISBN

9783540629375

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Engineering, Agriculture

Updated

2026-03-24