In the last decades, the field of structural health monitoring (SHM) has grown exponentially.
Yet, several technical constraints persist, which are preventing full realisation of its potential.
To upgrade current state-of-the-art technologies, researchers have started to look at nature's
creations giving rise to a new field called'biomimetics', which operates across the border
between living and non-living systems. The highly optimised and time-tested performance of
biological assemblies keeps on inspiring the development of bio-inspired artificial …