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There is a wide choice of good books about the biology of trees, and much excellent work has been written about timber and timber-derived products, and about the anatomy of wood, for example Carlquist (1988), Schweingruber (1990), and Wagenführ (1989). Most of the work on mechanical properties of wood is done in a vacuum, ignoring its use within the tree itself. The tree manufactures its wood in a very load-adapted way in order to prevent mechanical failure.
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Mattheck, C., Kubler, H. (1997). Introduction. In: Wood - The Internal Optimization of Trees. Springer Series in Wood Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-61219-0_1
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