| Chapter 1 |
Architectural design and structures |
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Form-optimizing processes in biological
structures - self-generating structures in nature based on pneumatics; Sacred
geometry in nature and Persian architecture; Complexity in architecture:
a small scale analysis; Similarities between "structures in nature"
and "man-made structures": biomimesis in architecture; Neural
networks and information interchange in buildings; Assessing the parametric
building model capabilities in minimizing change orders; Making reasonable
decisions for a greening plan: effects of the distribution of shading duration
by building structures; Influence of consolidation and interweaving on compression
behaviour of IsoTruss (TM) structures; Contemporary Streamkeepers: a comparison
of two urban horticultural restoration programs in arid California; Aesthetic
tradition and ancient technology: a case study of the water-wheel |
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| Chapter 2 |
Architecture and sustainability |
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A sustainable house for the southeastern
United States; Self-adaptive and sustainable buildings; Determination of
the reference building form concerning thermal comfort and minimum heat
loss; Architecture and nature: maintenance and conservation of mountain
architecture; Durability and degradation of natural stone in Syracusan façades:materials
and techniques compatible for recovery interventions |
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| Chapter 3 |
Acoustics |
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Bio-mimics for sound and vibration technologies;
Music, nature and structural form; The criterion of noise attenuation by
hedges |
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| Chapter 4 |
Biology |
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The mechanical self-optimisation of
trees; Application of fractional calculus in modeling and solving the bioheat
equation; Electro-osmotically driven flow near a soil animal body surface
and biomimetics; The efficiency of the explosive discharge of the bombardier
beetle, with possible biomimetic applications; The development of a miniature
mechanism for producing insect wing motion; Study on the wettability and
self-cleaning of butterfly wing surfaces; 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; Structural formation
of mandibles by a cellular automaton model; Characteristics of the non-smooth
surface morphology of living creatures and its application in agricultural
engineering; Bamboo as a composite structure and its mechanically failure
behaviour; Genetic analysis of coordinate flagellar and type III regulatory
circuits in pathogenic bacteria |
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| Chapter 5 |
Biomimetics |
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Designed porous and multi-scale flow
structures; Inherent benefits in microscale fractal-like devices for enhanced
transport phenomena; Lessons learned from the exquisite design of the endothelial
surface glycocalyx and their amazing applications; Structural analysis of
sludge floc; Learning from nature in building sustainable chemical technology;
Two-objective optimization and robustness |
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| Chapter 6 |
Design philosophy and methods |
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Applications of the finite vortex model;
Dissipative structures, complexity and strange attractors: keynotes for
a new eco-aesthetics; Material/matter/mater: the fundamental integrating
principles; The phi code in nature, architecture and engineering; Isotopic
diversity in natural and engineering design; Advanced reverse design through
a new biologically based system |
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| Chapter 7 |
Human biology and medicine |
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Cells, gels and mechanics; Determination
of pain intensity in newborns by time series analysis; Modelling the human
upper body in three-dimensional motion; Blood flow in vessels with artificial
or pathological geometrical changes |
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| Chapter 8 |
Materials |
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Computational biomimetics of twisted
plywood architectures in fibrous biological composites through chiral liquid
crystal self-assembly; Biomimetic manufacturing of fibers; On uniqueness
of fibrous materials; The difference in tensile behaviour of different silks
of the spider A. diadematus; Experimental investigation on anti-wear of
a bionic non-smooth surface made by laser texturing; Imitating nature in
building up thermodynamically stable layers on metals for protection against
corrosion; Bio-prototyping; Bionic improvement of soil bulldozing plates;
Reduction of sliding resistance between clay and bionics plates |
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| Chapter 9 |
Nature and architectural design |
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Matching nature with ‘Complex
Geometry’ - an architectural history; ‘Praxis of Inquiry’
in architectural design; Structural design in nature and in architecture |
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| Chapter 10 |
Space |
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Biomimetics applied to space exploration;
Space flower: the bionic system for satellite thermal regulation |
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