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Who is Claus Mattheck? And a warning for Frans, it's a .PDF link.
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Just some tree guy who wrote a few books
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!
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!
