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Applications-Some Influences of Engineering Ideas on Biology Being the fifth in a series of essays on the materials of nature

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Journal of Bionic Engineering 2006年第2期3卷 99-114页

作者： julian f.v.vincent Department of Mechanical Engineering The University of BathBath BA2 7AYUK

Ideas from engineering have helped the understanding of biological organisms for thousands of years. However, the mechanical aspects of biological materials and structures can, if properly interpreted and analysed, lead to a deeper understanding of the biology of organisms. Such an approach, although always current in some form, is nevertheless subject to the vagaries of fashion and the availability of analytical techniques. At present we are in a period of upturn. Areas of interest are deployable structures （applications in aerospace）, palaeontology （how little do we need to know in order to create a credible biosphere） and food science （we need a rational approach to the mechanics of food）.

关键词： Applications-Some Influences of Engineering Ideas on Biology Being the fifth in a series of essays on the materials of nature

Rolling in Nature and Robotics: A Review

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Journal of Bionic Engineering 2006年第4期3卷 195-208页

作者： Rhodri H.Armour julian f.v.vincent Centre for Biomimetic and Natural Technologies Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Bath Bath BA2 7AY UK

This paper presents a review of recent rolling robots including Rollo from Helsinki University of Technology, Spherical Mobile Robot from the Politecnico of Bad, Sphericle from the University of Pisa, Spberobot from Michigan State University, August from Azad University of Qazvin and the University of Tehran, Deformable Robot from Ritsumeijan University, Kickbot from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Gravitational Wheeled Robot from Kinki University, Gyrover from Carnegie Mellon University, Roball from the Université de Sherbrooke, and Rotundus from the Angstroem Space Technology Center. Seven rolling robot design principles are presented and discussed （Sprung central member, Car driven, Mobile masses, Hemispherical wheels, Gyroscopic stabilisation, Ballast mass - fixed axis, and Ballast mass - moving axis）. Robots based on each of the design principles are shown and the performances of the robots are tabulated. An attempt is made to grade the design principles based on their suitability for movement over an unknown and varied but relatively smooth terrain. The result of this comparison suggests that a rolling robot based on a mobile masses principle would be best suited to this specific application. Some wonderful rolling organisms are introduced and defined as ＂active＂ or ＂passive＂ depending on whether they generate their own rolling motion or external forces cause their rolling.

关键词： Rolling robot tumbleweed wheel ballast Gryoscope

Making Biological Materials

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Journal of Bionic Engineering 2005年第4期2卷 209-237页

作者： julian f.v.vincent Centre for Biomimetics and Natural Technologies Department of Mechanical Engineering The University of Bath Bath BA2 7AY UK

1 Chemistry and synthesis 1.1 Production and control of materials These days there can be few people who do not know that proteins are defined by DNA. DNA is made of two strands, each of which has along it, like a string of fairy lights, side branches that meet between the strands and hold them together. It is the sequence of these paired side branches （bases） that stores the information needed to define a protein. Three of the bases in sequence provide the information which, translated by the cell＇ s machinery, codes for a particular amino acid. Amino acids polymerise to make up specific proteins and, eventually, us. In defining an organism, that can weigh several tons, in its sequence of bases, the minute amount of DNA necessary for this task is an amazing example of data compression. When I was at school in Cambridge, shortly after Crick and Watson had worked out the basic structure of DNA for their Nobel prize, an enterprising breakfast cereal company had a cardboard cut-out DNA double spiral on the back of their packets. No doubt if you ate enough breakfasts you could save up for a whole gene. I don＇ t know what bit of protein the DNA coded for - I suspect no one did at the time. I remember another of the big names in genetics, Sydney Brenner （whose son went to our school and who later also got a Nobel prize）,

关键词： Making Biological Materials

Dynamics of Drying in Phenolically Tanned Materials

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Journal of Bionic Engineering 2004年第1期1卷 4-8页

作者： julian f.v.vincent Centre for Biomimetic and Natural Technologies Department of Mechanical EngineeringThe University of Bath

The cuticle of a maggot goes through a mechanical transition when it dries, increasing in stiffness by about an order of magnitude (e.g. from 0.5 GPa to 5 GPa) as the water content drops from about 1 g/g (weight of water per unit dry weight) to 0.4 g/g. Thus stiffness represents the loss of freezable water and is more or less diagnostic of a material stabilized by hydrogen bonds. further loss in water results in a smaller increase in stiffness. In natural systems the water content is controlled by the addition of phenolic residues, resulting in tanning or sclerotisation, which drives the matrix components towards co-operative interaction and makes the material permanently waterproof.

关键词： hydrogen bonding water content,mechanical transition beta proteins tanning,cuticle

Applications—Influence of Biology on Engineering

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Journal of Bionic Engineering 2006年第3期3卷 161-177页

作者： julian f. v. vincent Department of Mechanical Engineering The University of Bath Bath BA2 7AY UK

Examples are presented showing the way in which biological systems produce a range of functions which can be implemented in engineering, such as feedback-control of stiffness （muscles and nervous system）, the design of fault-free structures （trees） and damage-tolerant materials （wood） and high performance insulation （penguin feathers） and shock absorbers （hedgehog spines）.

关键词： Applications Influence of Biology on Engineering

Biomimetics of Campaniform Sensilla:Measuring Strain from the Deformation of Holes

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Journal of Bionic Engineering 2007年第2期4卷 63-76页

作者： julian f. v. vincent Sally E. Clift Carlo Menon Department of Mechanical Engineering The University of BathBath BA2 7AYUK Advanced Concepts Team European Space Agency2201 AZ NoordwijkThe Netherlands

We present a bio-inspired strategy for designing embedded strain sensors in space structures. In insects, the campaniform sensillum is a hole extending through the cuticle arranged such that its shape changes in response to loads. The shape change is rotated through 90° by the suspension of a bell-shaped cap whose deflection is detected by a cell beneath the cuticle. It can be sensitive to displacements of the order of 1 nm. The essential morphology, a hole formed in a plate of fibrous composite mate- rial, was modelled by Skordos et al. who showed that global deformation of the plate （which can be flat, curved or a tube） induces higher local deformation of the hole due to its locally higher compliance. further developments reported here show that this approach can be applied to groups of holes relative to their orientation. , The morphology of the sensillum in insects suggests that greater sensitivity can be achieved by arranging several holes in a regular pattern; that if the hole is oval it can be ＂aimed＂ to sense specific strain directions; and that either by controlling the shape of the hole or its relationship with other holes it can have a tuned response to dynamic strains. We investigate space applications in which novel bio-inspired strain sensors could successfully be used.

关键词： campaniform sensillum strain displacement compliance hole remote sensing fibrous composite

The Nature of Materials

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Journal of Bionic Engineering 2005年第2期2卷 93-114页

作者： julian f. v. vincent Centre for Biomimetics and Natural Technologies Department of Mechanical Engineering The University of Bath Bath BA2 7AY UK

This first essay is about a pending marriage between biology and some of the technologies of engineering. It is a story of a long-standing flirtation that has been consummated a number of times, but never properly solemnised, despite repeated attempts, and no one is quite sure how many of the offspring, if any, have been viable. Whether the union will be blessed in the near future is anyone’s guess. In the hope of helping the marriage on its way, I start with four lucky things the bride has to wear at the wedding for the marriage to succeed, at least in one of the more recent Western traditions.

关键词： The Nature of Materials

Selected Natural Materials in History

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Journal of Bionic Engineering 2005年第3期2卷 161-176页

作者： julian f. v. vincent Centre for Biomimetics and Natural Technologies Department of Mechanical Engineering The University of Bath Bath BA2 7AY UK

1 Technology of natural materials Early man used conveniently shaped stones as tools. ＂Workshop＂ areas have been found with large numbers of stones, some showing signs of being worked. However, organic materials like wood will decay under normal wet conditions in the presence of oxygen, so we won＇t find the same sort of evidence for wooden tools. It is safe to assume that early man used sticks as probes and clubs, and maybe even for making some sort of nestlike protection against the elements and predators, since we see chimpanzees and other animals doing this sort of thing. So wood, and ahnost certainly other plant materials such as fibrous leaves, and bone and other materials gleaned from dead animals, would be used from the earliest times. We need to know this in order to establish the idea that Man can be expected to have a long history of the use and manipulation of natural materials. This needs skills in choosing materials for certain uses on the basis of their mechanical properties, whether those properties are to do with the ease of shaping the material or the effectiveness of that material in use. Occasionally the material was chosen simply because it was readily available. If we find that a particular material was always used for a certain job, it＇s reasonable to deduce that Man was exerting materials selection criteria through experience.

关键词： Selected Natural Materials in History

Drag Reduction in a Swimming Humboldt Penguin, Spheniscus Humboldti, when the Boundary Layer is Turbulent

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Journal of Bionic Engineering 2005年第2期2卷 57-62页

作者： Alex R.Parfitt julian f.v. vincent Centre for Biomimetic and Natural Technologies Department of Mechanical Engineering The University of Bath Bath BA2 7AY UKCentre for Biomimetic and Natural Technologies Department of Mechanical Engineering The University of Bath Bath BA2 7AY UK

An area of protruding feathers found around the beak of many penguin species is thought to induce a turbulent boun~dary layer whilst swimming. Hydrodynamic tests on a model Humboldt penguin, Spheniscus humboldti, suggest that induced turbulence causes a significant reduction in boundary layer height, flow separation, and an average of 31 % reduction in drag (1.0 m/s to 4.5 m/s). visualisation of surface flow showed it to follow the body profile, over the feet and tail, before separating. Movement of the feet in swimming penguins correlates with steering of the bird. Induced turbulence may therefore further increase swimming efficiency by reducing the amount of foot movement required to direct the swimming bird.

关键词： drag drag reduction boundary layer turbulence penguin Spheniscus humboldti (Sphenisciformes)