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Bio-inspired, Flexible Structures and Materials

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This chapter discusses the potential of biomimetics in formfinding and the development of structural systems based on constant or reversible elastic deformation. The existence of high strength elastic materials are the preconditions for the technical realisation of such elastic structures. Therefore, this chapter will start by introducing elastic building materials and biomimetic abstraction techniques individually before bringing the two together by presenting case studies which successfully combined both aspects.

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  1. Institute of Building Structures and Structural Design (Itke), University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

    J. Lienhard, S. Schleicher & J. Knippers

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  1. C-TAC Research Unit, University of Minho, Guimarães, Portugal

    Fernando Pacheco Torgal

  2. CICECO University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal

    J. A. Labrincha

  3. Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

    M. V. Diamanti

  4. Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Urban Environment, Xiamen, China

    C.-P. Yu

  5. Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

    H. K. Lee

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Lienhard, J., Schleicher, S., Knippers, J. (2015). Bio-inspired, Flexible Structures and Materials. In: Pacheco Torgal, F., Labrincha, J., Diamanti, M., Yu, CP., Lee, H. (eds) Biotechnologies and Biomimetics for Civil Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09287-4_12

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