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Alex T. Lefik, Romeo M. Marian and Javaan S. Chahl
There are flapping wing-style systems being developed by various institutions around the world. However, despite there being many systems that superficially appear robust, there is no viable flapping wing flying system at this time. We identified a gap i...
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Marina Simovic-Pavlovic, Bojana Bokic, Darko Vasiljevic and Branko Kolaric
The fields of micro- and nanomechanics are strongly interconnected with the development of micro-electro-mechanical (MEMS) and nano-electro-mechanical (NEMS) devices, their fabrication and applications. This article highlights the biomimetic concept of d...
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Davor Andric, Josip Galic and Karin ?erman
The article examines the actuation characteristics of different basic structural schemes?basic body plans?for soft modular pneubotics in architecture are investigated. Eight basic body plans are translated from abstract expressions into their correspondi...
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Anastasiia Moskaleva, Alexander Safonov and Enrique Hernández-Montes
This article is a survey discussing the application of fiber-reinforced polymer composites in freeform structures and their impact on the design and shape generation process. The analysis of case studies showed that the use of FRP composites not only hel...
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Emanuel A. R. Camacho, Fernando M. S. P. Neves, André R. R. Silva and Jorge M. M. Barata
Natural flight has consistently been the wellspring of many creative minds, yet recreating the propulsive systems of natural flyers is quite hard and challenging. Regarding propulsive systems design, biomimetics offers a wide variety of solutions that ca...
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M. I. Lamas and C. G. Rodriguez
The aim of the present paper is to provide the state of the works in the field of hydrodynamics and computational simulations to analyze biomimetic marine propulsors. Over the last years, many researchers postulated that some fish movements are more effi...
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Xiaojuan Mo, Wenjie Ge, Marco Miraglia, Francesco Inglese, Donglai Zhao, Cesare Stefanini and Donato Romano
Jumping is a locomotion strategy widely evolved in both invertebrates and vertebrates. In addition to terrestrial animals, several aquatic animals are also able to jump in their specific environments. In this paper, the state of the art of jumping robots...
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Jie Shen, Mark Flores and Andrew Sharits
Very few studies have been conducted in the past to reveal the underlying mechanism that causes the high-impact performance of coconuts as a natural composite material and a structure. The goal of this study is to understand the dominant microstructures ...
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Sung Ho Lee, Hoon Yi, Cheol Woo Park, Hoon Eui Jeong and Moonkyu Kwak
In this study, we reported continuous partial curing and tip-shaped modification methods for continuous production of dry adhesive with microscale mushroom-shaped structures. Typical fabrication methods of dry adhesive with mushroom-shaped structures are...
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Wenxian Yang, Theodoros Alexandridis and Wenye Tian
Horizontal-axis axial flow tidal current turbine is regularly used to exploit the kinematic energy in tidal currents. However, the scaling up of tidal current turbine is very difficult. This is because strong tidal current only exists in the underwater r...
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