Abstract
With increasing concern about cost reduction and environmental destruction, lightweight structural design is essential in the product design process. As a means of yielding products with more lightweight and efficient structures, in this paper a method of extracting useful features from a biological lightweight structure, that of the American lobster is proposed. Tensile tests were conducted on biological specimens using plastic clamps made by a 3D printer and clarified some rules for the design of lightweight and efficient structures. Using the rules of material design, a novel method for acquiring bio-inspired lightweight designs was proposed and its feasibility was shown by FEM simulation.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1-8 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Computer-Aided Design and Applications |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Accepted/In press - 2016 Jan 9 |
Keywords
- 3D printing
- Bio-inspired design
- FEM simulation
- lightweight design
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Computational Mechanics
- Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
- Computational Mathematics