Engineering Mechanics of Biologically Inspired Products and Structures

In nature, shape and structure evolve in response to environmental conditions leading to improved performance. Often, materials and structures designed based on biological concepts combine multiple beneficial properties, making research into mimicking them very complex but rewarding.

A symposium is proposed to bring together investigations that deal with products and structures, that qualify to be complex, multi-functional, hierarchical, adaptive, autonomic materials, sensor-built, etc. that are typical characteristics of the biological world. Sub-topics could be:
1) Products inspired by natural world
2) Concepts based on Biological world
3) Structures designed/developed mimicking biological structures
4) Distributed Sensor based on Biological Concept
5) Hierarchically structured and self-assembled materials
6) Bio-inspired Imaging.

Organizers


Schedule

Monday 1

Room Time Talk
Knowledge Room 8:00 AM Deformation mechanism of nacre and nacre-inspired composites
Horacio Espinosa, Felix Latoute, Jee E Rim
Knowledge Room 8:40 AM Hierarchical Modelling of Gecko Toe Adhesion
Bin Chen, Peidong Wu, Huajian Gao
Knowledge Room 9:00 AM Topology optimization of structures using hybrid cellular automaton: Application to the design of periodic materials
Kumar Vemaganti, Raghavender Cheerkapally
Knowledge Room 9:20 AM An Experimental Investigation into the Explosive Characteristics of Fluid-filled Porous Structures - A Simplified Model of the Human Skull Cancellous Structure
Ashok Ghosh, Jason L. Mathews

Monday 2

Room Time Talk
Knowledge Room 11:00 AM Non-linear Fracture of Implant Polymers: Polytetrafluoroethylene and Polyethylene
Eric N. Brown
Knowledge Room 11:20 AM Effects of a bio-inspired interfacial modification on the properties of polymer matrix nanocomposites
Lesley Hamming, Phil Messersmith, Cate Brinson
Knowledge Room 11:40 AM Nature-inspired Hybrid Structural Materials
Robert O. Ritchie

Monday 3

Room Time Talk
Knowledge Room 2:00 PM Mechanically Efficient Cellular Microstructures in Plants
Lorna Gibson, Lorna Gibson
Knowledge Room 2:40 PM Influence of Weak Anchoring Upon the Alignment of Planar Lipid Bilayers with Surface Pretilt
Raffaella De Vita, Iain W. Stewart
Knowledge Room 3:00 PM Magnetoelastic MEMS Sensors for Detection of Biological Species
Bart Prorok