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Biomimicry for Materials, Design and Habitats

Innovations and Applications

  • 1st Edition - February 21, 2022
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Marjan Eggermont, Vikram Shyam, Aloysius F. Hepp
  • Language: English

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 biomimicr… Read more

Description

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.

Key features

  • 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

Readership

Materials Scientists and Engineers in R&D and academia

Table of contents


Part I
Biomimicry education: Tools and perspectives

1 Biom*: On becoming a teachable discipline
Shoshanah Jacobs and Kristina Wanieck

2 Introduction to bio-inspired materials: Design, processing and applications
Seyed M. Allameh and Avery Lenihan

3 The pattern alphabet: Nature’s patterns are the language of spatial reasoning and biomimicry
Alex Wolf, Vijal Parikh and Isabella De Lisi


4 Material culture, design studies, and human ecology: A biocentered perspective
Carlos Fiorentino and Megan Strickfaden

5 Inspiration from paleomimetics: Fossil does not equal failure
Stephen P. Howe and Vikram Shyam

Part II
Bio-inspired systems engineering and computer applications

6 Biomimicry for natural and synthetic composites and use of machine learning in hierarchical design
Mario Milazzo, Flavia Libonati, Shengfei Zhou,
Kai Guo and Markus J. Buehler

7 Tools, behavior, and materials: What should we learn from animal nest construction?
Maria C. Tello-Ramos, Shoko Sugasawa, Meron Dibia and Hunter King

8 Sample digitization techniques for bio-inspired engineering
Christin T. Murphy, Rolf Mu¨ ller and Sunghwan Jung

9 Assessment of an ant-inspired algorithm for path planning
V. Sangeetha, R. Krishankumar, K.S. Ravichandran and Amir H. Gandomi


10 Functional synergy of biomimicry and additive manufacturing: Toward a bio-enhanced engineering approach
Anton du Plessis and Chris Broeckhoven

11 Smart textiles through bio-inspired innovation
Kony Chatterjee, Shuzhen Wei and Tushar Ghosh

12 Polymerization in nature yields clues to innovation in additive manufacturing
Thomas A. McKeag

13 Syntheses, mechanisms, and applications of bio-inspired self-cleaning surfaces
Quan Xu, Travis Shihao Hu, Xiaowei Wang, Jie Wang and Zhenhai Xia

14 Commercialization journeys: Bringing biomimetic innovation to the market
Jacques Edouard Chirazi

PART IV
Biomimetic habitation: Architecture and sustainable environments

15 Morphological differentiation for the environmental adaptation of biomimetic buildings: Skins, surfaces, and structures
Lidia Badarnah and Katia Zolotovsky

16 A case study in biomimetic roofing: Moisture dissipation from leaf-shaped shingles
Ariana I.K.S. Rupp and Petra Gruber

17 Design studies and applications of mycelium biocomposites in architecture
Onur Kırdo¨ k, Didem Akyol Altun, Hanaa Dahy, Lena Strobel,
E. Esin Hame¸s Tuna, Gu¨ lden Ko¨ ktu¨ rk, O¨ zge Andic¸ C¸ akır,
Ayc¸a Tokuc¸ , Feyzal O¨ zkaban and Aylin ¸Sendemir

18 Green Harbors Project: Biomimicry in action
Anamarija Franki´c

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: February 21, 2022
  • Language: English

About the editors

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Marjan Eggermont

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.
Affiliations and expertise
Teaching Professor, Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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Vikram Shyam

Dr. Vikram Shyam is an adjunct professor at the University of Akron in the Mechanical Engineering department. He is also a research aerospace engineer who works as a futurist for NASA. He is the founder of the Virtual Interchange for Nature-Inspired Exploration (V.I.N.E.) at NASA's John H. Glenn Research Center. His interests include artificial intelligence, biomimicry, innovation design and futurology. Dr. Shyam is the recipient of NASA’s Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).
Affiliations and expertise
Adjunct Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Akron, OH, USA

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Aloysius F. Hepp

Aloysius F. Hepp is Chief Technologist at Nanotech Innovations and an independent consultant based in Cleveland, Ohio. He earned a PhD in Inorganic Photochemistry in 1983 from MIT and retired in December 2016 from the Photovoltaic & Electrochemical Systems Branch of the NASA Glenn Research Center (Cleveland). He was a visiting fellow at Harvard University from 1992–3. He was awarded the NASA Exceptional Achievement medal in 1997. He has served as an adjunct faculty member at the University of Albany and Cleveland State University. Dr. Hepp has co-authored nearly 200 publications (including six patents) focused on processing of thin film and nanomaterials for I–III–VI solar cells, Li-ion batteries, integrated power devices and flight experiments, and precursors and spray pyrolysis deposition of sulfides and carbon nanotubes. He has co-edited twelve books on advanced materials processing, energy conversion and electronics, biomimicry, and aerospace technologies. He is Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing (MSSP) and is currently the chair of the International Advisory Board of MSSP, as well as serving on the Editorial Advisory Boards of Mater. Sci. and Engin. B and Heliyon. He has recently been appointed as Series Editor for the Vacuum and Thin-Film Deposition Technologies series and the Aerospace Fundamentals, Applications, and Exploration series.

Affiliations and expertise
Chief Technologist, Nanotech Innovations LLC and a Science Advisory Board Member, CoreWater Technologies, Inc., Oberlin, OH, USA

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