Biomimicry for Materials, Design and Habitats (eBook, ePUB)

Innovations and Applications
Redaktion: Eggermont, Marjan; Hepp, Aloysius F.; Shyam, Vikram

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Biomimicry for Materials, Design and Habitats: Innovations and Applications and is a survey of the recent work of recognized experts in a variety of fields who employ biomimicry and related paradigms to solve key problems of interest within design, science, technology, and society. Topics covered include innovations from biomimicry in materials, product design, architecture, and biological sciences. The book is a useful resource for educators, designers, researchers, engineers, and materials scientists, taking them from the theory behind biomimicry to real world applications.

Living systems have evolved innovative solutions to challenges that humans face on a daily basis. Nonlinear multifunctional systems that have a symbiotic relationship with their environment are the domain of nature. Morphological solutions for buildings inspired by nature can be used for skins, surfaces, and structures to facilitate environmental adaptation of buildings to increase occupant comfort and reduce energy demands. Birds can teach us to produce novel structures, 3D printing can be informed by oysters and mussels, and mycelium may show us the way to fabricate new biocomposites in architecture. Therefore, it is in nature that we seek inspiration for the solutions to tomorrow's challenges.

• Presents new directions in education and the various applications of biomimicry within industry, including bio-inspired entrepreneurship
• Discusses the role of biomimicry in education, innovation, and product design
• Covers applications in systems engineering and design, novel materials with applications in 3D printing, and bio-inspired architecture
• Includes perspectives on sustainability detailing the role that bio-inspiration or biomimicry plays in sustainability

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, B, BG, CY, CZ, D, DK, EW, E, FIN, F, GR, HR, H, IRL, I, LT, L, LR, M, NL, PL, P, R, S, SLO, SK ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
• Seitenzahl: 590
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780128210543
• Artikelnr.: 63491387

Autorenporträt

Dr. Marjan Eggermont is a Teaching Professor and faculty member at the University of Calgary in the Mechanical and Manufacturing department of the Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary. She is also the Academic Director for Sustainable Engineering. Dr. Eggermont teaches in the areas of graphics, engineering design, visualization, and biomimicry. She co-founded and designs Zygote Quarterly (ZQ), an online journal to provide a platform to showcase the nexus of science and design using case studies, news, and articles. In 2005, she was one of the recipients of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Curriculum Innovation Award. She is a former board member of the American Society of Engineering Education.

Inhaltsangabe

A Biomimicry Education and Innovation 1. Biom*: On becoming a teachable discipline 2. Introduction to bioinspired materials: Design, processing and applications 3. The Pattern Alphabet: Nature's Patterns are the Language of Spatial Reasoning and Biomimicry 4. Material Culture, Design Studies, and Human Ecology: A Bio-centered Perspective 5. Inspiration from Paleomimetics: Fossil does not Equal Failure

B Systems Engineering and Computer Applications 6. Biomimicry for bone and hybrid composites and the use of machine learning in hierarchical design 7. Animal Engineering 8. Sample digitization techniques for bio-inspired engineering 9. Assessment of an ant-inspired algorithm for path planning

C Materials, Innovation and Manufacturing 10. Functional synergy of biomimicry and additive manufacturing: Towards a bio-enhanced engineering approach 11. Smart Textiles through Bio-Inspired Innovation 12. Polymerization in Nature Yields Clues to Innovation in Additive Manufacturing 13. Biomimetic self-cleaning surfaces: Synthesis, mechanism and applications 14. Biomimicry Launchpad: Bringing Biomimetic Innovation to Market

D Architecture and Habitation 15. Morphological Differentiation for the Environmental Adaptation of Biomimetic Buildings: Skins, Surfaces, Structures 16. Biomimetic roofing: Moisture dissipation from leaf-shape shingles 17. Design studies and applications of Mycelium biocomposites in architecture 18. Green Harbors Project: Biomimicry in Action