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Biomimicry. --- Bio-inspired engineering --- Bionics

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We will shortly begin our study of bio-inspired engineering by examining one of the classic examples in the field. We will first meet George De Mestral and learn of his inspiration from biology for a technology that is very common today. This chapter will provide the student with an introduction to bio-inspired engineering through examples, definitions, and exercises.

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Global warming, pollution, food and water shortage, cyberspace insecurity, over-population, land erosion, and an overburdened health care system are major issues facing the human race and our planet. These challenges have presented a mandate to develop ""natural"" or ""green"" technologies using nature and the living system as a guide to rationally design processes, devices, and systems. This approach has given rise to a new paradigm, one in which innovation goes hand-in-hand with less waste, less pollution, and less invasiveness to life on earth. Bioinspiration has also led to the development

Biomimicry --- Bionics --- Biomimetics --- Chemicals --- Intellectronics --- Bioengineering --- Biophysics --- Cybernetics --- Simulation methods --- Systems engineering --- Bio-inspired engineering --- Biometry --- Science

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This book comprises a first survey of the Collaborative Research Center SFB-TRR 141 ‘Biological Design and Integrative Structures – Analysis, Simulation and Implementation in Architecture’, funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft since October 2014. The SFB-TRR 141 provides a collaborative framework for architects and engineers from the University of Stuttgart, biologists and physicists from the University of Freiburg and geoscientists and evolutionary biologists from the University of Tübingen. The programm is conceptualized as a dialogue between the disciplines and is based on the belief that that biomimetic research has the potential to lead everyone involved to new findings far beyond his individual reach. During the last few decades, computational methods have been introduced into all fields of science and technology. In architecture, they enable the geometric differentiation of building components and allow the fabrication of porous or fibre-based materials with locally adjusted physical and chemical properties. Recent developments in simulation technologies focus on multi-scale models and the interplay of mechanical phenomena at various hierarchical levels. In the natural sciences, a multitude of quantitative methods covering diverse hierarchical levels have been introduced. These advances in computational methods have opened a new era in biomimetics: local differentiation at various scales, the main feature of natural constructions, can for the first time not only be analysed, but to a certain extent also be transferred to building construction. Computational methodologies enable the direct exchange of information between fields of science that, until now, have been widely separated. As a result they lead to a new approach to biomimetic research, which, hopefully, contributes to a more sustainable development in architecture and building construction. .

Life Sciences, general. --- Architecture and biology. --- Biomimicry. --- Bio-inspired engineering --- Biology and architecture --- Biomimetics. --- Bionics --- Biology --- Biomimicry --- Chemicals --- Life sciences. --- Biosciences --- Sciences, Life --- Science