A Product Architecture-Based Tool for Bioinspired Function-Sharing
| Autor: | Astrid Layton, Devesh Bhasin, Daniel A. McAdams |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Computer science
Mechanical Engineering media_common.quotation_subject 02 engineering and technology 010402 general chemistry 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology 01 natural sciences Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design 0104 chemical sciences Computer Science Applications Computer architecture Mechanics of Materials Biomimetics 0210 nano-technology Function (engineering) Product architecture media_common |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Mechanical Design. 143 |
| ISSN: | 1528-9001 1050-0472 |
| Popis: | In this work, we show that bioinspired function-sharing can be effectively leveraged in engineering design by abstracting and emulating the product architecture of biological systems that exhibit function-sharing. Systems that leverage function-sharing enable multiple functions to be performed by a single structure. Billions of years of evolution have led to the development of function-sharing adaptations in biological systems. Currently, engineers leverage biological function-sharing by imitating serendipitously encountered biological structures. As a result, utilizing bioinspired function-sharing remains limited to some specific engineering problems. To overcome this limitation, we propose the reduced function-means tree as a tool to simultaneously abstract both biological adaptations and their associated product architecture. The tool uses information from an existing bioinspired design abstraction tool and an existing product architecture representation tool. A demonstration study illustrates the tool's ability to abstract the product architectural interactions of function-sharing biological systems. The abstracted product architectural interactions are then shown to facilitate problem-driven bioinspiration of function-sharing. The availability of a problem-driven approach may reduce the need to imitate biological structures to leverage biological function-sharing in engineering design. This work is a step forward in analyzing biological product architectures to inspire engineering design. The future work will focus on validating the proposed tool by performing user studies. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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