Bio Inspired Design Strategies and Realization Through Additive Manufacturing for Structural Form Applications

Abstract

Nature has long influenced engineering innovation, with Nature-Inspired Design newline(NID) providing a pathway to efficient and sustainable solutions. Despite advancements in newlineAdditive Manufacturing (AM) enabling the fabrication of complex geometries, the newlinesystematic translation of biological intelligence into validated engineering structures newlineremains limited. This research addresses the challenges of standardizing NID newlinemethodologies, extracting engineering-relevant biological principles, and integrating newlinenatural morphological patterns into computational and manufacturing workflows. newlineTo overcome these challenges, a Bionic-Inspired Engineering Framework based on newlinethe BREED methodology (Bionic Representation, Relation, Emulation, Engineering, and newlineDesign Optimization) is developed. The framework includes a structured bionic database newlinethat organizes natural structures based on functional, structural, and application-specific newlinecriteria, enabling efficient retrieval and selection of biologically relevant geometries. A newlinespectral matching approach is further introduced to analytically evaluate deformation newlinebehavior similarity between biological and engineered structures, allowing a behaviordriven newlinedesign selection process.