Bio-Inspired Design for Structural and Sustainable Applications: 2nd Edition
A special issue of Biomimetics (ISSN 2313-7673).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 995
Special Issue Editor
Interests: multi-scale material modeling and characterization; design of composites and nano-composites; characterization of materials/composites/nanostructured thin films and coatings; mechanical strength evaluation and failure prediction; metal forming processing design/testing/modeling/optimization
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Dear Colleagues,
Current technologies rely on standard and traditional design and manufacturing techniques and cannot effectively solve the pressing problems and challenges. Bio-inspired design uses approaches from life sciences, processes and strategies, physical sciences, mathematical sciences, engineering, and medical sciences. It opens a new field to create innovative products, technologies, and manufacturing methods. It can help improve performance, reduce energy consumption, and increase durability and/or sustainability. This Special Issue aims to be a leading topic in bio-inspired design, focusing on the design process of promoting technological innovation rather than traditional approaches and offering potentially transformative solutions to those problems and challenges that face our near future and future societies. Bio-inspired design solutions are widely used in different engineering disciplines. However, in structural engineering, these solutions mainly involve bio-inspired structures/microstructures, shapes, and topologies of materials, and they are mainly applied in optimizing stiffness, strength, lightweight, toughness, etc. In sustainable applications, these solutions mainly involve addressing challenges in the natural environment, including designing environmentally friendly materials and degrading pollutant materials.
Prof. Dr. Zhong Hu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- bio-inspired design
- additive manufacturing
- structural applications
- sustainable materials
- degradable materials
- pollution
- climate change
- mechanical properties
- topology optimization
- computer modeling
- microstructure
- biomaterial
- representative volume element (RVE)
- lattice structure
- porous structure
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