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Following his extremely successful five day VTA Elite Workshop last spring Symbiosis Consulting, in association with the Arboricultural Association, are bringing Claus back in May 2010 for his biennial seminar programme:
Tuesday 18th May:
Fielder Conference Centre, Hatfield Business Park, Hertfordshire
Wednesday 19th May:
Leicester Racecourse Conference Centre, Oadby, Leicester
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The delegate fee will be £165.00 plus V.A.T. and the proposed programme is outlined below:
- Compact VTA - update lecture to present the state of the art information on Visual Tree Assessment & Tree Engineering
- New verdicts & selected legal points of view regarding tree diagnosis
- Thinking tools free of formulae - shear square method, the tensile triangles & the brand new method of force cones
- Separation shear cracks at the root buttress whose higher risk can only be understood by use of the shear squares
- Hot spots of dead wood assessment
- Sac fungi - a new related failure criterion
- Review of new tree diagnosis tools from IML
- Possibilities & limitations for age determination of perennial fungal fruit bodies
- How broadleaved trees fight spiral cracks & the biomechanical similarities between the hazard beam crack and spiral crack.
 
PHOTOS
FROM THE 2007 VTA ELITE WORKSHOP
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Claus
explaining the compensatory
growth of a hollow veteran oak
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Failure
diagnosis
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Discussing
the background formulae for tree container dimension calculation
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Prof.
Dr. Claus Mattheck ~ A brief biography:
Born
in Dresden, Germany in 1947, Claus gained a 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 a professor.
He is 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.
During
his career Claus has received many prestigious awards, including:
- Science Award
of the Industrial Research Foundation for the computer simulation
of biological growth in 1991
- Literature
Award of the Karl Theodor Vogel Foundation for technical journalists
in 1992
- Georg Winter
Award of the European Society for Biomaterials in 1993
- Science Award
of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences in 1998 (founded by
the Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz Foundation)
- Chadwick Award
of the ISA for arboricultural research in 1998
- Henry Ford
European Conservation Award (environment technology)
- Inge & Werner
Grüter Award for science journalism in 1999
- English Arboricultural
Association Annual Award 2002
- Honorary Membership
of the Urban Tree Diagnosis Association Japan 2003
- German Environmental
Award 2003
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…
marching onwards to the pinnacles of understanding where
even
trees and objects are able to speak in the language of forms.
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