Thursday, 17 November 2011 at 17.15
General Interest Seminar
Timber is one of the few truly renewable construction materials we have, but the fact it is made by trees to suit their own agenda presents a number of challenges. This talk will cover the biomechanics of wood from the macroscopic to the molecular scale, the ways we can influence wood properties through silviculture, and attempt to explain how structural engineers deal with imperfect knowledge of the materials they work with.
3D glasses will be provided.
There will be tea and doughnuts from 16.30.
Lecture Theatre A, JCMB, Kings Buildings campus.