Prof. Dr. Claus Mattheck

NEW BOOKS!

 

is working on:

 

·        TREE BIOMECHANICS

 

·        TREE DIAGNOSIS

 

·        FAILURE ANALYSIS & PREVENTION

 

·        SHAPE OPTIMIZATION

 

 

offers Seminars on:

 

·        Tree diagnosis using the VTA-method (Visual Tree Assessment)

·        Tree biomechanics

·        Failure analysis and failure prevention in engineering by shape optimization following the design rules of trees and bones

 

 

 

 

 

Prof. Mattheck’s English Books:

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Secret design rules of nature

Verlag Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, 2007 

 

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Updated field guide for Visual Tree Assessment

Verlag Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, 2007

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Stupsi explains the tree - a hedgehog teaches the body language of trees

Verlag Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, 3rd enlarged edition 1999

 

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Tree mechanics - explained with sensitive words by Pauli the bear

Verlag Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, 2002

 

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The face of failure in nature and engineering

Verlag Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, 2004

 

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Design in nature – learning from trees

Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, 1998

 

C. Mattheck. H. Kubler

Wood – the internal optimization of trees

Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, 2nd edition 1997

 

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Trees – the mechanical design

Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, 1996 (out of print)

 

 

 

 

Prof. Mattheck’s curriculum vitae and awards

 

Claus Mattheck: born in Dresden, Germany in 1947. PhD in Theoretical Physics in Dresden in 1973, qualified to lecture in Failure Analysis at Karlsruhe University in 1985, and now lectures on biomechanics as professor. Head of department of Biomechanics at the Institute for Materials Research II of the Karlsruhe Research Centre, licensed consultant on the mechanics and fracture behaviour of trees, on wood decomposing fungi and on fatigue fractures in engineering components.

Awarded the Science Award of the Industrial Research Foundation for the computer simulation of biological growth in 1991; the Literature Award of the Karl Theodor Vogel Foundation for technical journalists in 1992; the Georg Winter Award of the European Society for Biomaterials in 1993; honorary membership of the ISA Great Britain & Ireland in 1997; the Science Award of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences in 1998 (founded by the Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz Foundation); the Chadwick Award of the ISA for arboricultural  research in 1998; the Henry Ford European Conservation  Award (environment technology), the Inge & Werner Grüter Award for science journalism in 1999, the English Arboricultural Association Annual Award 2002, the Honorary Membership of the Urban Tree Diagnosis Association Japan 2003, the German Environmental Award 2003 and Honorary Advisor of the Urban Tree Diagnosis Association Japan 2008

Claus Mattheck likes Staffordshire Bullterriers, big bore guns, bow and arrow, hiking and trees, trees, trees…. - His favoured materials are wood, leather and steel!

 

 

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