Advanced bio-inspired structural materials: Local properties determine overall performance

B Zhang, Q Han, J Zhang, Z Han, S Niu, L Ren - Materials Today, 2020 - Elsevier
Natural materials have always attracted intensive attention from multidisciplinary scientists
all over the world. In fact, the ingenious and reasonable synthetic strategies of the limited …

Bioinspired strategies for excellent mechanical properties of composites

X Peng, B Zhang, Z Wang, W Su, S Niu, Z Han… - Journal of Bionic …, 2022 - Springer
Developing high-performance composite materials is of great significance as a strong
support for high-end manufacturing. However, the design and optimization of composite …

A novel bio-inspired helmet with auxetic lattice liners for mitigating traumatic brain injury

Z Chen, J Li, B Wu, X Chen, X Ren… - Smart materials and …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The human head is most vulnerable to injury during activities such as road traffic and sports.
To mitigate the risk of traumatic brain injury (TBI), helmets serve as an important protective …

[HTML][HTML] Looking deep into nature: A review of micro-computed tomography in biomimicry

A du Plessis, C Broeckhoven - Acta biomaterialia, 2019 - Elsevier
Albert Einstein once said “look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything
better”. Looking deep into nature has in the last few years become much more achievable …

Porous morphology and graded materials endow hedgehog spines with impact resistance and structural stability

Y Li, B Zhang, S Niu, Z Zhang, W Song, Y Wang… - Acta biomaterialia, 2022 - Elsevier
Hedgehog spines with evolved unique structures are studied on account of their remarkable
mechanical efficiency. However, because of limitations of existing knowledge, it remains …

Stabbing spines: a review of the biomechanics and evolution of defensive spines

SB Crofts, T Stankowich - Integrative and Comparative Biology, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Spines are ubiquitous in both plants and animals, and while most spines were likely
originally used for defense, over time many have been modified in a variety of ways. Here …

Bioinspirational understanding of flexural performance in hedgehog spines

CJ Drol, EB Kennedy, BK Hsiung, NB Swift, KT Tan - Acta biomaterialia, 2019 - Elsevier
In this research, the flexural performance of hedgehog spines is investigated in four ways.
First, X-ray micro-computed tomography (μ CT) is employed to analyze the complex internal …

Impact response and energy absorption of human skull cellular bones

Q Wu, L Ma, Q Liu, L Feng, Z Wang, A Ohrndorf… - Journal of the …, 2018 - Elsevier
A skull fracture, due to a composition of typical lightweight cellular structures, is the most
common type of traumatic brain injury. This paper presents a systematic investigation on the …

Flexural properties of porcupine quill-inspired sandwich panels

YL Tee, H Nguyen-Xuan, P Tran - Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper presents the bending behaviour of the porcupine quill and bioinspired Voronoi
sandwich panels, aiming to explore the effect of geometrical design on the bending …

Araç koltuğu sırt desteğinin biyomimetik tabanlı tasarımı ve analizi

EC Ulaş, H Başak, A Akkurt - Politeknik Dergisi, 2022 - dergipark.org.tr
Otomotiv üreticileri potansiyel müşterilerinin vücut bütünlüğünü göz önüne alarak araç ve
döşeme tasarımlarını gerçekleştirmelerine rağmen çeşitli durumlarda insan bedeninde bir …