The solutions to technical challenges posed by flight and space exploration tend to be multidimensional, multifunctional, and increasingly focused on the interaction of systems and their environment. The growing discipline of biomimicry focuses on what humanity can learn from the natural world. Biomimicry for Aerospace: Technologies and Applications features the latest advances of bioinspired materials–properties relationships for aerospace applications.
Readers will get a deep dive into the utility of biomimetics to solve a number of technical challenges in aeronautics and space exploration. Part I: Biomimicry in Aerospace: Education, Design, and Inspiration provides an educational background to biomimicry applied for aerospace applications. Part II: Biomimetic Design: Aerospace and Other Practical Applications discusses applications and practical aspects of biomimetic design for aerospace and terrestrial applications and its cross-disciplinary nature. Part III: Biomimicry and Foundational Aerospace Disciplines covers snake-inspired robots, biomimetic advances in photovoltaics, electric aircraft cooling by bioinspired exergy management, and surrogate model-driven bioinspired optimization algorithms for large-scale and complex problems. Finally, Part IV: Bio-Inspired Materials, Manufacturing, and Structures reviews nature-inspired materials and processes for space exploration, gecko-inspired adhesives, bioinspired automated integrated circuit manufacturing on the Moon and Mars, and smart deployable space structures inspired by nature.
1. Title of Book - p. i 2. Cover image - p. i 3. Title page - p. ii 4. Table of Contents - p. iii 5. Copyright - p. iii 6. Contributors - p. xiii 7. Preface - p. xvii 8. Part 1: Biomimicry in aerospace: Education, design and inspiration - p. xxii 9. Chapter One. Biomimicry and biodesign for innovation in future space colonization - p. 3 10. Chapter TWO. A bio-inspired design and space challenges cornerstone project - p. 41 11. Chapter THREE. Toward systematic nature-inspired problem-solving for aerospace applications and beyond - p. 63 12. Chapter Four. Parallels in communication technology and natural phenomena - p. 81 13. Chapter Five. Atacama Desert: Genius of place - p. 103 14. Chapter SIX. Bio-inspired design and additive manufacturing of cellular materials - p. 141 15. Part 2: Bio-inspired design: Aerospace and other practical applications - p. 182 16. Chapter Seven. Biomimetic course design exploration for improved NASA zero gravity exercise equipment - p. 187 17. Chapter Eight. Biomimetics of boxfish: Designing an aerodynamically efficient passenger car - p. 211 18. Chapter Nine. Thresholds of nature: How understanding one of nature's penultimate laws led to the PowerCone, a biomimetic energy source - p. 237 19. Part 3: Biomimicry and foundational aerospace disciplines - p. 257 20. Chapter Ten. Slithering across worlds—snake-inspired robots for extraterrestrial exploration - p. 261 21. Chapter Eleven. Biomimetic advances in photovoltaics with potential aerospace applications - p. 291 22. Chapter Twelve. Electric aircraft cooling with bio-inspired exergy management - p. 331 23. Chapter Thirteen. Surrogate model-driven bio-inspired optimization algorithms for large-scale and high-dimensional problems - p. 353 24. Part 4: Bio-inspired materials, manufacturing and structures - p. 382 25. Chapter Fourteen. Advancing research efforts in biomimicry to develop nature-inspired materials, processes for space exploration and more efficient aircraft - p. 385 26. Chapter Fifteen. Space applications for gecko-inspired adhesives - p. 423 27. Chapter Sixteen. Automated electronic integrated circuit manufacturing on the Moon and Mars: Possibilities of the development of bio-inspired semiconductor technologies for space applications - p. 459 28. Chapter Seventeen. Smart deployable space structures inspired by nature - p. 477 29. Index - p. 495
The solutions to technical challenges posed by flight and space exploration tend to be multidimensional, multifunctional, and increasingly focused on the interaction of systems and their environment. The growing discipline of biomimicry focuses on what humanity can learn from the natural world. Biomimicry for Aerospace: Technologies and Applications features the latest advances of bioinspired materials–properties relationships for aerospace applications.
Readers will get a deep dive into the utility of biomimetics to solve a number of technical challenges in aeronautics and space exploration. Part I: Biomimicry in Aerospace: Education, Design, and Inspiration provides an educational background to biomimicry applied for aerospace applications. Part II: Biomimetic Design: Aerospace and Other Practical Applications discusses applications and practical aspects of biomimetic design for aerospace and terrestrial applications and its cross-disciplinary nature. Part III: Biomimicry and Foundational Aerospace Disciplines covers snake-inspired robots, biomimetic advances in photovoltaics, electric aircraft cooling by bioinspired exergy management, and surrogate model-driven bioinspired optimization algorithms for large-scale and complex problems. Finally, Part IV: Bio-Inspired Materials, Manufacturing, and Structures reviews nature-inspired materials and processes for space exploration, gecko-inspired adhesives, bioinspired automated integrated circuit manufacturing on the Moon and Mars, and smart deployable space structures inspired by nature.
1. Title of Book - p. i 2. Cover image - p. i 3. Title page - p. ii 4. Table of Contents - p. iii 5. Copyright - p. iii 6. Contributors - p. xiii 7. Preface - p. xvii 8. Part 1: Biomimicry in aerospace: Education, design and inspiration - p. xxii 9. Chapter One. Biomimicry and biodesign for innovation in future space colonization - p. 3 10. Chapter TWO. A bio-inspired design and space challenges cornerstone project - p. 41 11. Chapter THREE. Toward systematic nature-inspired problem-solving for aerospace applications and beyond - p. 63 12. Chapter Four. Parallels in communication technology and natural phenomena - p. 81 13. Chapter Five. Atacama Desert: Genius of place - p. 103 14. Chapter SIX. Bio-inspired design and additive manufacturing of cellular materials - p. 141 15. Part 2: Bio-inspired design: Aerospace and other practical applications - p. 182 16. Chapter Seven. Biomimetic course design exploration for improved NASA zero gravity exercise equipment - p. 187 17. Chapter Eight. Biomimetics of boxfish: Designing an aerodynamically efficient passenger car - p. 211 18. Chapter Nine. Thresholds of nature: How understanding one of nature's penultimate laws led to the PowerCone, a biomimetic energy source - p. 237 19. Part 3: Biomimicry and foundational aerospace disciplines - p. 257 20. Chapter Ten. Slithering across worlds—snake-inspired robots for extraterrestrial exploration - p. 261 21. Chapter Eleven. Biomimetic advances in photovoltaics with potential aerospace applications - p. 291 22. Chapter Twelve. Electric aircraft cooling with bio-inspired exergy management - p. 331 23. Chapter Thirteen. Surrogate model-driven bio-inspired optimization algorithms for large-scale and high-dimensional problems - p. 353 24. Part 4: Bio-inspired materials, manufacturing and structures - p. 382 25. Chapter Fourteen. Advancing research efforts in biomimicry to develop nature-inspired materials, processes for space exploration and more efficient aircraft - p. 385 26. Chapter Fifteen. Space applications for gecko-inspired adhesives - p. 423 27. Chapter Sixteen. Automated electronic integrated circuit manufacturing on the Moon and Mars: Possibilities of the development of bio-inspired semiconductor technologies for space applications - p. 459 28. Chapter Seventeen. Smart deployable space structures inspired by nature - p. 477 29. Index - p. 495
