Bioinspired building materials—lessons from nature

A Sandak, K Butina Ogorelec - Frontiers in Materials, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Systems found in nature are a valuable source of inspiration for several applications.
Scientists and researchers from different fields (structural engineering, robotics, medicine …

Imperfect comb construction reveals the architectural abilities of honeybees

ML Smith, N Napp, KH Petersen - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Honeybees are renowned for their perfectly hexagonal honeycomb, hailed as the pinnacle
of biological architecture for its ability to maximize storage area while minimizing building …

Unraveling the Mechanisms of the Apis mellifera Honeycomb Construction by 4D X‐ray Microscopy

R Franklin, S Niverty, BA Harpur… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Honeycomb is one of nature's best engineered structures. Even though it has inspired
several modern engineering structures, an understanding of the process by which the …

Bioinspired pattern-driven single-material 4D printing for self-morphing actuators

YS Alshebly, KB Mustapha, A Zolfagharian, M Bodaghi… - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
Four-dimensional (4D) printing of shape memory polymers is a leading research field due to
the possibilities allowed by using these materials. The strain difference in the structures that …

[HTML][HTML] PLA toughening via bamboo-inspired 3D printed structural design

J Svatík, P Lepcio, F Ondreáš, K Zárybnická… - Polymer Testing, 2021 - Elsevier
Bioinspired structures can attain mechanical properties unseen in conventional artificial
materials. Specifically, the introduction of a cellular structure with a precisely designed …

Review of fiber-based three-dimensional printing for applications ranging from nanoscale nanoparticle alignment to macroscale patterning

W Xu, Y Zhu, D Ravichandran… - ACS Applied Nano …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The field of additive manufacturing (AM) has witnessed spectacular growth in the past 4
decades because of its revolutionary processing mechanism in combining bottom-up and …

Parametric optimization of corner radius in hexagonal honeycombs under in-plane compression

A Rajeev, A Grishin, V Agrawal, B Santhanam… - Journal of Manufacturing …, 2022 - Elsevier
What is the optimum corner radius for a regular hexagonal honeycomb in the context of in-
plane, quasistatic compression loading? Drawing inspiration from social insect hexagonal …

Bio-inspired selective nodal decoupling for ultra-compliant interwoven lattices

Y Mistry, O Weeger, S Morankar, M Shinde… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Architected materials such as lattices are capable of demonstrating extraordinary
mechanical performance. Lattices are often used for their stretch-dominated behavior, which …

The comparative approach to bio-inspired design: integrating biodiversity and biologists into the design process

CA Penick, G Cope, S Morankar, Y Mistry… - Integrative and …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Biodiversity provides a massive library of ideas for bio-inspired design, but the sheer
number of species to consider can be daunting. Current approaches for sifting through …

Crack growth-based life prediction for additively manufactured metallic materials considering surface roughness

K Kethamukkala, C Meng, J Chen, Y Liu - International Journal of Fatigue, 2023 - Elsevier
Additively Manufactured (AM) components are prone to fatigue damage due to defects
accompanied by the manufacturing process, such as surface roughness, internal porosity …