The surface structure of the Chinese mitten crab dactylopodite was investigated. The results indicated that the Chinese mitten crab dactylopodite has grooves with variable section structure on the surface of dactylopodite for achieving good traveling...
Bionic amphibious robots are the intersection of biology and robotics; they have the advantages of environmental adaptability and maneuverability. An amphibious robot that combines walking and swimming move modes inspired by a crab (Portunus) is pres...
The flapping hydrofoil bionic pump is an innovative hydrodynamic device that utilizes flapping hydrofoil technology. Flapping hydrofoil bionic pumps are crucial in addressing issues like inadequate river hydropower and limited water purification capa...
This study presents a novel optimization framework applying the multi-objective response surface method to enhance the safety of electric micro commercial vehicles (E-MCVs) during side pole impacts. By focusing on seven critical load-bearing componen...
Harbor seals (Phoca vitulina) have excellent perception of water disturbances and can still sense targets as far as 180 m away, even when they lose their vision and hearing. This exceptional capability is attributed to the undulating structure of its...
In this paper, sorghum and reed, which possess light stem structures in nature, were selected as biomimetic prototypes. Based on their mechanical stability characteristics—the porous structure at the node feature and the porous feature in the o...
This paper systematically reviews the research progress of underwater soft grasping devices in the field of bionic structure, function integration, and tactile sensing technology by drawing on the structural characteristics of marine organisms such a...
High-performance vector hydrophones have been gaining attention for underwater target-monitoring applications. Nevertheless, there exists the mutual constraint between sensitivity and bandwidth of a single hydrophone. To solve this problem, a four-un...
Biomimetic structures are now a major topic of research, as natural systems achieve high performance through hierarchical organization, multifunctional interfaces, and scale-bridging design principles. Nanofabrication provides a powerful approach to...
Aiming at the technical bottleneck that traditional porous structures can hardly achieve mechanical load-bearing and acoustic regulation simultaneously, this study designs and fabricates three implicit surface porous structures (Gyroid, Diamond, Lidi...
Whip restraints based on thin-walled structures are widely used for protection against high-energy pipe breaks in nuclear power plants due to their excellent impact resistance. Recently, biomimetic and hierarchical structures have emerged as focal po...
This paper discusses the latest progress in research on ant nests and explores innovative scientific concepts associated with underground ant nests from the perspective of bionics. The methods used by scholars to study the structure of ant nests and...
With the acceleration of urbanization, environmental degradation is increasingly restricting the improvement of residents’ quality of life, and promoting the transformation of old communities has become a key path for sustainable urban developm...
Biological fish exhibit remarkable adaptability and exceptional swimming performance through their powerful and flexible bodies. Therefore, designing a continuum flexible body is significantly important for the development of a robotic fish. However,...
Hybrid girder bridges can be likened to plant grafting, where mechanical traits are inherited from both rootstock and scion girders, enabling performance that exceeds that of the individual components. To quantitatively evaluate this inheritance and...
Bionic airfoils are an effective method to improve aerodynamic performance and reduce the noise of wind turbine blades. To explore the impact of the lower surface of bird wing airfoils on the aerodynamic performance and noise of blades, this study co...
A miniaturised bionic electronic nose system was developed to solve the problems of expensive equipment and long response time for soil pesticide residue detection. The structure of the bionic electronic nasal cavity is designed based on the spatial...
Ice accumulation severely threatens the safe operation of aerospace, wind power and power transmission facilities, while traditional deicing technologies suffer high energy consumption and secondary pollution. Bioinspired superhydrophobic phototherma...
Electron beam welding (EBW) is widely used to weld titanium alloy parts such as aero-engine casing and blades. The surface quality after EBW has a significant influence on the aero-engine performance of those parts. We propose a surface treatment met...
In this paper, inspired by the structural characteristics of the human eyeball, a bionically designed circular resonant structure is proposed, and a flexible chipless radio frequency identification (RFID) tag based on this concept is developed. By se...
In addition to improving the efficacy of the furrow opener by ensuring consistent seeding depth, the gryllulus jaw geometry curve was integrated into the furrow opener. Soil particles were modeled using the DEM combined with the Hertz–Mindlin w...
The rational structural design of polycrystalline diamond compact (PDC) cutters effectively enhances the performance of drill bits in rock fragmentation and extends their service life. Inspired by bionics, a bionic PDC cutter was designed, taking the...
As an important part of head protection equipment, research on the material and structural application of helmet liners has always been one of the hotspots in the field of helmets. This paper first discusses common helmet liner materials, including t...
To optimize the tribological properties of a mechanical transmission skateboard, rectangular micro/nanogrid structures of different sizes are studied. The reciprocating sliding tests are carried out under friction and wear. The results show that with...
In this paper, based on bionics, a flexible multi-band antenna is designed to mimic the structure of a spider’s web, which supports various communication standards such as 4G, 5G, and GPS. The antenna lays out multiple loop branches in a limite...
Dung beetle leg joints exhibit a remarkable capacity to support substantial loads, which is a capability significantly influenced by their surface microstructure. The exploration of biomimetic designs inspired by the surface microstructure of these j...
In order to obtain scaffold that can meet the therapeutic effect, researchers have carried out research on irregular porous structures. However, there are deficiencies in the design method of accurately controlling the apparent elastic modulus of the...
In the field of mechanical equipment manufacturing, the focus of research and development is not on weight reduction, but on how to choose between the rigidity and performance of components (such as strength or flexibility). For this contradiction, l...
Metallic additive manufacturing process parameters, such as inclination angle and minimum radius, impose constraints on the printable lattice cell configurations in complex components. As a result, their mechanical properties are usually lower than t...
Fiber-reinforced composites are an ideal high-performance composite material made from a combination of high-strength continuous fibers and a polymer matrix. Compared to short cut fibers, continuous long strand fibers can improve the mechanical prope...
Drawing inspiration from the bionic nacre structure, graphene was incorporated into the epoxy solvent-borne adhesive to construct a laminated architecture. At the same time, ferrocene was employed as a catalyst to induce the in situ growth of carbon...
The article considers the mathematical model describing the joint motion of a viscous compressible heat-conducting fluid and a thermoelastic plate with a fine two-level thermoelastic bristly microstructure attached to it. The bristly microstructure c...
This paper presents a rigid-flexible composite of bionic hand structure design scheme solution for solving the problem of low load on the soft gripping hand. The bionic hand was designed based on the Fast Pneumatic Network (FPN) approach, which can p...
Bio-inspired imaging polarimeters have significant applications in the field of detecting the polarization state of skylights. The polarization detection principle of polarization detection units in polarimeters is mostly based on the Stokes paramete...
The exhaust tailpipe of a certain type of tractor was improved from the perspective of bionics, and bionic triangular convex texture was added to the inner surface of the exhaust tailpipe. The bionic tailpipe was proposed to improve noise reduction p...
Internal combustion engines, during their operation, subject the piston to high-temperature and high-pressure conditions, requiring it to endure intense, continuous reciprocating motion. This strenuous process leads to significant wear and tear. Amon...
Tree-climbing robots are primarily utilized for pruning and harvesting in tall trees; however, limited structural degrees of freedom (DoFs) reduce their flexibility in complex environments. To improve the flexibility and environmental adaptability of...
Compared to single-decker ball bearings, double-decker ball bearings offer advantages such as higher speed limits, greater load capacity, and better impact performance. However, the inclusion of an additional bearing and adapter ring structure increa...
Agricultural soil contact components, including ploughshares, rotary blades, and furrow openers, form the active interface between machinery and complex field media. Operating in multiphase environments, these tools face severe abrasive wear, impact...
In recent years, spider webs have received significant attention due to their exceptional mechanical properties, including strength, toughness, elasticity, and robustness. Among these spider webs, the orb web is a prevalent type. An orb web’s m...
Spiders have unique biological characteristics and excellent maneuverability, making them an ideal model for bionic robot design. However, traditional bionic spider robot designs usually have multiple degrees of freedom and confront many challenges....
A cellular-based evolutionary topology optimization scheme over a small curvature big contour wing surface is proposed for the design of an ultralight surface structure. Using this method, a ground-structure technique is first applied to obtain homog...
While bionic sawtooth and wave structures effectively reduce aerodynamic noise on fixed airfoils, their efficacy on rotating fans is often limited. Inspired by the protrusion structures of dragonfly wings and the gentle circular arches of manta rays,...
The wheel hub is an important component of the wheel, and a good hub design can significantly improve vehicle handling, stability, and braking performance, ensuring safe driving. This article optimized the hub structure through morphological aspects,...
Inspired by the convex hull structure of the dung beetle head’s surface, we extracted the non-smooth surface morphology of its head and designed a rubber bushing with a representative structure according to the bionics principle. According to t...
In this study, based on the principles of bionics, we fabricated a bionic non-smooth concave pit structure on the shoulders of friction stir welding tools and detected the thermal cycling curve, downforce, and torque of the tool in the welding proces...
The rapid development of additive manufacturing (AM) has facilitated the creation of bionic lightweight, energy-absorbing structures, enabling the implementation of more sophisticated internal structural designs. For protective structures, the utiliz...
High-performance medical acoustic sensors are essential in medical equipment and diagnosis. Commercially available medical acoustic sensors are capacitive and piezoelectric types. When they are used to detect heart sound signals, there is attenuation...
Bionic structures are widely used in scientific research. Through the observation and study of natural biological structure, it is found that spider web structure is composed of many radial silk lines protruding from the center and spiral silk lines...
To address the problems of high digging resistance, elevated energy consumption, and severe soil adhesion encountered during mechanized potato harvesting, a bionic potato digging shovel inspired by the corrugated dorsal structure of the white grub wa...
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