Design in Nature Learning from Trees
The chicken bone which you nibbled and threw away yesterday was a high-tech product! In fact it was a superlative light-weight design functionally adapted to the mechanical requirements. No engineer in the world has as yet been able to copy this structural member, which is excellently optimized in i...
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Berlin, Heidelberg
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
1998, 1998
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1998 |
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- The Minimum on Mechanics
- What Is a Good Mechanical Design?
- The Axiom of Uniform Stress and How Computer Methods Derive from It
- The Mechanics of Trees and the Self-Optimization of Tree Shape
- The Right Load Distribution: The Axiom of Uniform Stress and Tree Shape
- Annual Rings: The Internal Diary as a Consequence of the External Situation
- Wood Fibres and Force Flow: The Fear of Shear Stress
- How Does a Tree Break?
- Can Trees Really Not Shrink?
- Bones: Ultra-Light and Very Strong by Continuous Optimization of Shape
- Bone Design: Selected Examples
- Bony Frameworks and Tree Frameworks Compared
- Claws and Thorns: Shape-Optimized by Success in the Lottery of Heredity
- Biological Shells
- Bracing: Ultra-Light but Highly Specialized
- Shape Optimization by Growth in Engineering Design
- Unity in Diversity: Design Target and Realization
- Critique on Optimum Shape: Sensitization by Specialization
- Outlook: Ecodesign and Close-to-Nature Computer Empiricism
- New Examples of Application in Self-Explanatory Illustrations
- References