It is widely known that the availability of lightweight structures with excellent energy
absorption capacity is essential for numerous engineering applications. Inspired by many …

Nature has developed high‐performance materials and structures over millions of years of
evolution and provides valuable sources of inspiration for the design of next‐generation …

Researchers and engineers have been fascinated by the way weak organic and inorganic
components naturally combine to create strong and long-lasting structures for the past few …

Eight structural elements in biological materials are identified as the most common amongst
a variety of animal taxa. These are proposed as a new paradigm in the field of biological …

The uncertainty in the ply orientation of bio-inspired helicoidal laminated composite
cylindrical shells is quantified. The frequencies obtained from the higher-order shear …

Natural selection is the process that results in adaptive evolution, but it is not the cause of
evolution. The cause of natural selection and, therefore, of adaptive evolution, is any …

Biological materials have a wide range of mechanical properties matching their biological
function. This is achieved via complex structural hierarchies, spanning many length scales …

Structural biological materials such as bone, teeth or mollusk shells draw their remarkable
performance from a sophisticated interplay of architectures and weak interfaces. Pushed to …

Geometrically structured interfaces in nature possess enhanced, and often surprising,
mechanical properties, and provide inspiration for materials design. This paper investigates …

Inspired by the overlap** scales found on teleost fish, a new composite architecture
explores the mechanics of materials to accommodate both flexibility and protection. These …