Design and Nature II: Comparing Design in Nature with Science and Engineering

by M. W. Collins (Editor), C. A. Brebbia (Editor)

Overview

In his introductory address to this conference held in June 2004, Collins (South Bank U., UK) comments on the parallels between biological systems and human-engineered designs in terms of thermodynamic complexity and entropy. This collection of 59 papers spans an eclectic range of fields, design scales, and topics including: architectural design, architecture for sustainability, acoustics, biology, biomimetics, design philosophy and methods, medicine, and space exploration. E.g., the last paper describes a new spacecraft thermal control device based on a flower's shape and behavior. Lacks a subject index. Brebbia is with the Wessex Institute of Technology, UK. The US office of WIT Press is Computational Mechanics in Billerica, MA. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781853127212
Publisher:	WIT Press
Publication date:	01/28/2004
Series:	Design and Nature Ser. , #6
Pages:	648
Product dimensions:	5.91(w) x 9.06(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

	Introductory Address	xv
Section 1	Architectural design and structures
	Form-optimizing processes in biological structures-self-generating structures in nature based on pneumatics	3
	Sacred geometry in nature and Persian architecture	25
	Complexity in architecture: a small scale analysis	35
	Similarities between "structures in nature" and "man-made structures": biomimesis in architecture	45
	Neural networks and information interchange in buildings	55
	Assessing the parametric building model capabilities in minimizing change orders	63
	Making reasonable decisions for a greening plan: effects of the distribution of shading duration by building structures	73
	Influence of consolidation and interweaving on compression behavior of Iso Truss structures	83
	Contemporary Streamkeepers: a comparison of two urban horticultural restoration programs in arid California	93
	Aesthetic tradition and ancient technology: a case study of the water-wheel	105
Section 2	Architecture and sustainability
	A sustainable house for the southeastern United States	117
	Self-adaptive and sustainable buildings	127
	Determination of the reference building form concerning thermal comfort and minimum heat loss	135
	Architecture and nature: maintenance and conservation of mountain architecture	145
	Durability and degradation of natural stone in Syracusan facades: materials and techniques compatible for recovery interventions	155
Section 3	Acoustics
	Bio-mimics for sound and vibration technologies	167
	Music, nature and structural form	175
	The criterion of noise attenuation by hedges	185
Section 4	Biology
	The mechanical self-optimisation of trees	197
	Application of fractional calculus in modeling and solving the bioheat equation	207
	Electro-osmotically driven flow near a soil animal body surface and biomimetics	217
	The efficiency of the explosive discharge of the bombardier beetle, with possible biomimetic applications	227
	The development of a miniature mechanism for producing insect wing motion	237
	Study on the wettability and self-cleaning of butterfly wing surfaces	245
	A 3-D finite element analysis of the sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) fruit under impact: a useful approach for the understanding and improvement of its hullability	253
	Structural formation of mandibles by a cellular automaton model	265
	Characteristics of the non-smooth surface morphology of living creatures and its application in agricultural engineering	275
	Bamboo as a composite structure and its mechanically failure behaviour	285
	Genetic analysis of coordinate flagellar and type III regulatory circuits in pathogenic bacteria	295
Section 5	Biomimetics
	Designed porous and multi-scale flow structures	307
	Inherent benefits in microscale fractal-like devices for enhanced transport phenomena	317
	Lessons learned from the exquisite design of the endothelial surface glycocalyx and their amazing applications	329
	Structural analysis of sludge floc	339
	Learning from nature in building sustainable chemical technology	349
	Two-objective optimization and robustness	359
Section 6	Design philosophy and methods
	Applications of the finite vortex model	371
	Dissipative structures, complexity and strange attractors: keynotes for a new eco-aesthetics	381
	Material/matter/mater: the fundamental integrating principles	389
	The phi code in nature, architecture and engineering	401
	Isotopic diversity in natural and engineering design	411
	Advanced reverse design through a new biologically based system	421
Section 7	Human biology and medicine
	Cells, gels and mechanics	433
	Determination of pain intensity in newborns by time series analysis	443
	Modelling the human upper body in three-dimensional motion	451
	Blood flow in vessels with artificial or pathological geometrical changes	461
Section 8	Materials
	Computational biomimetics of twisted plywood architectures in fibrous biological composites through chiral liquid crystal self-assembly	473
	Biomimetic manufacturing of fibers	483
	On uniqueness of fibrous materials	493
	The difference in tensile behaviour of different silks of the spider A. diadematus	503
	Experimental investigation on anti-wear of a bionic non-smooth surface made by laser texturing	513
	Imitating nature in building up thermodynamically stable layers on metals for protection against corrosion	523
	Bio-prototyping	535
	Bionic improvement of soil bulldozing plates	545
	Reduction of sliding resistance between clay and bionics plates	555
Section 9	Nature and architectural design
	Matching nature with 'Complex Geometry'--an architectural history	567
	'Praxis of Inquiry' in architectural design	577
	Structural design in nature and in architecture	589
Section 10	Space
	Biomimetics applied to space exploration	603
	Space flower: the bionic system for satellite thermal regulation	613
	Author Index	623