Title:

New Biomaterials Inspired by Nature's Process of Problem Solving

Speaker:

Prof. Julian Vincent

Affiliation:

University of Bath

When:

Thursday, March 17, 2011 at 3:00:00 PM   Add to Calendar

Where:

IBB Building, Room Suddath

Host:

Bill Wepfer
bill.wepfer@me.gatech.edu

Abstract

Abstract: Biomimetics is the abstraction from, and application of, good design from biological systems. I shall briefly describe 3 examples from my own work and that of colleagues (woodpecker hammer, wasp ovipositor drill, wood analogue), and discuss some of the fairy tales. I shall then develop ways to compare biology and technology at a more abstract level, and show how one can derive basic design rules that can be applied to objects and processes which have no obvious biological connection. The underlying arguments are derived from the Russian problem solving system TRIZ (also known as TIPS).

Biography

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