Fur & Claws
Author: Tessa Miller
Publisher:
Published: 2018-08
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781629207391
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Fur & Claws: Technology Inspried by Animals
Author: Tessa Miller
Publisher: Triangle Interactive, Inc.
Published: 2020-12-23
Total Pages: 50
ISBN-13: 1684521270
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne fall day, a Swiss engineer was hiking with his dog. Soon the dog was covered in cockleburs, which held fast to its fur. After years of study and experimentation, the engineer invented Velcro, with hooks and loops just like the cockleburs. What would life be like without Velcro? In Animal Tech: Fur & Claws, readers will learn about six life-changing technologies that have been inspired by mammals. They will follow the stories of the scientists and engineers who have harnessed mammals’ abilities, developing them into powerful technologies that have shaped our world.
Beastly Firepower
Author: Lisa M. Bolt Simons
Publisher: Capstone Press
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 33
ISBN-13: 1543590225
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the wild, animals use teeth, claws, and other natural weapons to attack their prey. On the battlefield, soldiers need weapons to fight the enemy. Military forces have often looked to nature for inspiration to develop effective weapons and combat tactics. From the first feathered arrows to tomorrow's high-tech weaponry, take a look at how military technology often imitates the natural weapons of animals to help soldiers succeed in combat. Then be sure to catch the other amazing titles in the Beasts and the Battlefield series.
Sensor Technologies for Civil Infrastructures
Author: Jerome P. Lynch
Publisher: Woodhead Publishing
Published: 2022-07-19
Total Pages: 726
ISBN-13: 0081027079
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSensor Technologies for Civil Infrastructure, Volume 2: Applications in Structural Health Monitoring, Second Edition, provides an overview of sensor applications and a new section on future and emerging technologies. Part one is made up of case studies in assessing and monitoring specific structures such as bridges, towers, buildings, dams, tunnels, pipelines, and roads. The new edition also includes sensing solutions for assessing and monitoring of naval systems. Part two reviews emerging technologies for sensing and data analysis including diagnostic solutions for assessing and monitoring sensors, unmanned aerial systems, and UAV application in post-hazard event reconnaissance and site assessment. - Includes case studies in assessing structures such as bridges, buildings, super-tall towers, dams, tunnels, wind turbines, railroad tracks, nuclear power plants, offshore structures, naval systems, levees, and pipelines - Reviews future and emerging technologies and techniques including unmanned aerial systems, LIDAR, and ultrasonic and infrared sensing - Describes latest emerging techniques in data analysis such as diagnostic solutions for assessing and monitoring sensors and big data analysis
Biomimetic Technologies
Author: Trung Dung Ngo
Publisher: Woodhead Publishing
Published: 2015-07-24
Total Pages: 394
ISBN-13: 0081002602
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBiomimetic engineering takes the principles of biological organisms and copies, mimics or adapts these in the design and development of new materials and technologies. Biomimetic Technologies reviews the key materials and processes involved in this groundbreaking field, supporting theoretical background by outlining a range of applications. Beginning with an overview of the key principles and materials associated with biomimetic technologies in Part One, the book goes on to explore biomimetic sensors in more detail in Part Two, with bio-inspired tactile, hair-based, gas-sensing and sonar systems all reviewed. Biomimetic actuators are then the focus of Part Three, with vision systems, tissue growth and muscles all discussed. Finally, a wide range of applications are investigated in Part Four, where biomimetic technology and artificial intelligence are reviewed for such uses as bio-inspired climbing robots and multi-robot systems, microrobots with CMOS IC neural networks locomotion control, central pattern generators (CPG's) and biologically inspired antenna arrays. - Includes a solid overview of modern artificial intelligence as background to the principles of biomimetic engineering - Reviews a selection of key bio-inspired materials and sensors, highlighting their current strengths and future potential - Features cutting-edge examples of biomimetic technologies employed for a broad range of applications
Cat Claws to Thumbtacks
Author: Jennifer Colby
Publisher: Cherry Lake
Published: 2019-01-01
Total Pages: 28
ISBN-13: 1534140719
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSome of the greatest inventions that changed the modern world have been based on nature. In Cat Claws to Thumbtacks, readers will discover how the invention of thumbtacks were inspired by cat claws. Book includes table of contents, glossary, index, author biographies, and sidebars.
Bio-inspired Surfaces And Applications
Author: Yuehao Luo
Publisher: World Scientific
Published: 2016-06-21
Total Pages: 599
ISBN-13: 9814704504
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThrough millions of years' natural selection, sharkskin has developed into a kind of drag-reducing surface. This book shows how to investigate, model, fabricate and apply sharkskin's unique surface properties, creating a flexible platform for surface and materials engineers and scientists to readily adopt or adapt for their own bio-inspired materials.Rather than inundate the reader with too many examples of materials inspired by nature, sharkskin has been chosen as the center-piece to illustrate accurate 3D digital modeling of surfaces, complete numerical simulation of micro flow field, different fabrication methods, and application to natural gas pipelining. This is a must-read for any researcher or engineer involved in bio-inspired surfaces and materials studies.
Bio-Inspired Technologies for the Modern World
Author: R. Ramakrishna Reddy
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2024-08-23
Total Pages: 431
ISBN-13: 100098852X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNature gives us ample opportunity to understand and observe her secrets, and scientists and inventors can and do study the characteristics of things in nature to come up with amazing and astonishing technologies and products invented as a result. This new volume provides a sampling of technological issues that have been tackled with the help of biologically inspired engineering, by such things in nature as bionic plants, the lotus leaf, insects and beetles, geckos, bats, spiders, and butterflies. It considers bio-inspired technologies that have been applied in water purification, for business lessons, in healthcare and medicine, and more. This unique volume is an inspiring resource for professionals, researchers, scholars, engineers, and businessmen and businesswomen interested in the latest developments by studying the wonders of natural science.
Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems
Author: Nathan F. Lepora
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-07-11
Total Pages: 569
ISBN-13: 3319424173
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book constitutes the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems, Living Machines 2016, held in Edinburgh, UK, in July 2016. The 34 full and 27 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 63 submissions.The theme of the conference encompasses biomimetic methods for manufacture, repair and recycling inspired by natural processes such as reproduction, digestion, morphogenesis and metamorphosis.
Omics technologies in livestock improvement: From selection to breeding decisions
Author: Mudasir Ahmad Syed
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Published: 2023-02-03
Total Pages: 383
ISBN-13: 2832513409
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