Bio-Inspired Materials.

Cover -- Title -- Biblography -- End User License Agreement -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Contributors -- Bio-Pulse Oscillations Driven Design of Kinetic Structures -- Marios C. Phocas*, Odysseas Kontovourkis and Niki I. Georgiou -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. BIOMIMETIC DESIGN -- 3. KINEMATICS -- 3.1. Soft-mechanical Approach -- 3.2. Simulation Approaches -- 4. BIO-PULSE OSCILLATIONS -- 5. CASE STUDY: HIGH-RISE AIRFLOW SYSTEM -- 5.1. Primary Structure -- 5.2. Secondary Kinetic Mechanism -- 5.2.1. Simulation Analysis -- 6. CONCLUSIONS -- CONSENT FOR PUBLICATION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- CONFLICT OF INTEREST -- REFERENCES -- Truss Material Reduction Provided by the Golden Ratio -- Ulisses Targino Bezerra* -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. PRATT TRUSS MODELS -- 3. PRATT TRUSS ANALYSIS -- CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- CONSENT FOR PUBLICATION -- CONFLICT OF INTEREST -- REFERENCES -- Complexity and Adaptability in Nature and Society -- George Rzevski* -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. WHAT IS COMPLEXITY? -- 3. SEVEN KEY PROPERTIES OF COMPLEXITY -- 3.1. Connectivity -- 3.2. Autonomy -- 3.3. Emergence -- 3.4. Nonequilibrium -- 3.5. Nonlinearity -- 3.6. Self-organization -- 3.7. Co-evolution -- 4. COMPLEXITY SCIENCE -- 4.1. Brief Overview -- Our social, economic and political environments cannot be simplified because their complexity is a result of evolutionary forces, which are not under our control. -- 5. ADAPTABILITY -- 5.1. Coping with Disruptions -- 5.2. Defending from Attacks -- 5.3. Resolving Conflicts -- 5.4. Correcting Drift into Failure and Avoiding Stagnation -- 6. DESIGNING FOR ADAPTABILITY -- 7. TECHNOLOGY FOR DESIGNING COMPLEXITY INTO ORGANIZATIONS, PROCESSES AND PRODUCTS -- 7.1. Architecture -- 7.2. How Multi-Agent Software Works -- 7.3. Organizational and Process Design Cases -- 7.4. Engineering Design Cases -- CONCLUSIONS -- CONSENT FOR PUBLICATION.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- CONFLICT OF INTEREST -- REFERENCES -- Without Inner Walls: A Concept of the Café's House -- Theófilo Barreto Moreira Oliveira1,* and Ulisses Targino Bezerra2 -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. OW: WITHOUT INNER WALLS -- 3. FLOOR PLAN -- 4. STUDIO -- 5. LIVING ROOM -- 6. KITCHEN AND DINING ROOM -- 7. OFFICE AND BALCONY -- 8. BATHROOM/WC -- 9. LAVATORY -- 10. GUEST ROOM -- 11. SUITE -- 12. ROOFTOP TERRACE -- 13. SERVICE AREA -- 14. THE NULLIFICATION OF OW -- NOTES -- CONSENT FOR PUBLICATION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- CONFLICT OF INTEREST -- REFERENCES -- Similarity Between Particle Packing in Concrete and in Nature -- Eng. Piet Stroeven1,* and Eng. Kai Li2 -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. REALCRETE AND COMPUCRETE -- 3. AGGREGATE PACKING BY DEM -- 3.1. Bulk Packing -- 3.2. Boundary Effects -- 4. PACKING OF FIBERS IN CONCRETE -- 5. DEM PACKING OF BINDER -- DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS -- CONSENT FOR PUBLICATION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- CONFLICT OF INTEREST -- REFERENCES -- Current Developments and Future Needs for Natural Earth Construction: A State-of-the-Art Review -- Ana Cecilia Vieira Nóbrega1 and Normando Perazzo Barbosa2* -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. AN OVERVIEW OF NATURAL EARTH BUILDING -- 3. SOIL - MATERIALS SELECTION FOR EARTH CONSTRUCTION -- 4. DURABILITY OF EARTHEN CONSTRUCTION -- 5. ACADEMIC AND FIELD RESEARCH IN NATURAL EARTH CONSTRUCTIONS: A STATE-OF-THE-ART REVIEW WITH CURRENT DEVELOPMENTS -- 6. DEVELOPING EARTH CONSTRUCTION BUILDING CODES, STANDARDS, AND NORMS -- 7. WORLD INNOVATIONS IN EARTHEN CONSTRUCTION -- 8. FUTURE NEEDS IN EARTH BUILDING -- FINAL CONSIDERATIONS -- CONSENT FOR PUBLICATION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- CONFLICT OF INTEREST -- REFERENCES -- Bio-inspired Design with Bamboo -- Normando Perazzo Barbosa1,*, José Augusto Gomes Neto1, Sandra Reyes Ortiz2 and Khosrow Ghavami3 -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. GENERALITIES CONCERNING BAMBOO.

2.1. Morphology -- 2.1.1. Rhizomes and Roots -- 2.1.2. Culms -- 2.1.3. Branches -- 2.1.4. Leaves -- 2.1.5. Flowers and Fruits -- 3. HOW TO GET CULMS TO CONSTRUCTION -- 3.1. Selection -- 3.2. Cutting -- 3.3. Curing -- 3.4. Drying -- 3.5. Immunization Treatments -- 4. PHYSICAL PROPERTIES -- 4.1. Inter-nodal Distance, Outside Diameter, Wall Thickness -- 4.2. Water Absorption -- 4.3. Specific Mass -- 5. MECHANICAL PROPERTIES -- 5.1. Compressive Strength -- 5.2. Compressive Strength Parallel to Fibers -- 5.3. Shear Strength Parallel to Fibers -- 5.4. Summary of Mechanical Properties in Tension and Compression Parallel to Fibers -- 6. FUTURE PERSPECTIVES -- 6.1. Impregnation of Bamboo with Polymeric Resins -- CONSENT FOR PUBLICATION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- CONFLICT OF INTEREST -- REFERENCES -- Frontiers in Bio-Inspired Mineralization: Addressing Mimesis of Four-Dimensional, Hierarchical, and Nonclassical Growth Characteristics of Biominerals -- Stephan E. Wolf1,2,*, Martina Schüßler1, Corinna F. Böhm1 and Benedikt Demmert1 -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. TOWARDS DYNAMIC CONTROL OF MINERALIZATION - THE STATIC, QUASI-STATIC, AND DYNAMIC GENESIS OF BIOMINERALS -- 3. HIERARCHICAL MINERALIZATION - CONTROL OF HIERARCHY AND STRUCTURES ACROSS MULTIPLE LENGTH SCALES -- 4. NONCLASSICAL MINERALIZATION - COLLOID-MEDIATED MINERALIZATION PROCESSES AS A SOURCE OF FUNCTIONAL NANO- TO MESO-STRUCTURES -- CONCLUSION -- CONSENT FOR PUBLICATION -- CONFLICT OF INTEREST -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Sustainable and Safe Construction Biomaterials: Biocements and Biogrouts -- Volodymyr Ivanov* and Viktor Stabnikov -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. BIOCEMENT/BIOGROUT FOR CRYSTALLIZATION OF CALCIUM CARBONATE BY HYDROLYSIS OF UREA AT MOLAR RATIO CA: UREA = 0.5 - 2.0 (CAUR BIOCEMENT/BIOGROUT) -- 3. THE DIVERSITY OF BIOCEMENTS AND BIOGROUTS -- 4. MICROORGANISMS FOR BIOCEMENT/BIOGROUT.

5. BIOCEMENTATION BIOSAFETY: USE OF ENRICHMENT OR PURE CULTURE -- 6. PRODUCTION OF BIOSAFE BIOCEMENTS -- 7. ACTIVATED SLUDGE FROM MUNICIPAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS USED AS RAW MATERIAL -- 8. DRY AND LIQUID CALCIUM-BASED BIOCEMENT -- 9. UNCONFINED COMPRESSIVE (UC) STRENGTH OF SAND AFTER MICP -- 10. ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS OF BIOCEMENTS -- CONSENT FOR PUBLICATION -- CONFLICT OF INTEREST -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Interaction Between Natural Fibres and Synthetic Polymers -- Alejandro Manzano-Ramírez1,*, Mario Villalón2 and José Luis Reyes Araiza3 -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. REINFORCED COMPOSITE MATERIALS WITH NATURAL FIBERS -- 2.1. Natural Fibers -- 2.2. Chemical Treatments to Promote Adherence of Natural Fibers -- 3. TESTING STATIC METHODS -- 3.1. Conclusions of Static Tests -- 4. TESTING-VIBRATION METHODS -- 4.1. Dynamic Mechanical Analysis (DMA) -- 4.2. Design of Dynamic Mechanical Tests -- 4.2.1. Preparation of Treated Short Coir Fibre -- 4.2.2. Composite Materials Fabrication -- 4.2.3. Dynamic Test -- 4.3. Coir Fiber Dynamic Test Results -- CONCLUSION -- CONSENT FOR PUBLICATION -- CONFLICT OF INTEREST -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Subject Index -- Back Cover.

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