Trees The Mechanical Design - Mattheck, Gerhard C.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1991)
1. Introduction -- 2. The absolute minimum of mechanical knowledge -- 2.1 External loading -- 2.2 Internal stresses: the response of the mechanical component to external loads -- 3. How the tree minimizes its external loading -- 4. Even load distribution: the hypothesis of constant stress on the surface -- 5. Mechanical classification of adaptive growth -- 6. Case studies -- 7. Conclusions -- References.
Keywords: Agriculture; Forestry; Plant science; Botany; Biophysics; Biological physics; Biomathematics; Statistics .; Agriculture; Forestry; Plant Sciences; Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics; Mathematical and Computational Biology; Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences