BIOLOGICAL SOLUTIONS FOR TECHNICAL PROBLEMS

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- Structural paerns o Grid o Plated o Shell - Structural elements - Structural components - Geometrical Duality – geometry=structure - Structure and force - Structure and form - Structure and funcon - Structure and performance, etc. 27

Biomimetic top-down approach (technology pull process) of adaptive components for built structures. The technical challenge is to develop structures with adaptive stiffness and continuous hinge-less kinematics (P1+A1). Biological concept generators are (P2) herbaceous plants and (A2) mouthparts and ovipositors of insects. The underlying functional principles found in plants (P3) and animals (A3) will be translated into computational models (P4+A4).