Inspiration from paleomimetics: Fossil does not equal failure

Howe, Stephen

doi:10.1016/b978-0-12-821053-6.00017-5

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“…Fossil taxa can also enable to reconstruct steps in evolutionary changes, like for the conquest of the terrestrial environment by amphibians, the progressive transition from a terrestrial to an aquatic locomotion in marine mammals and reptiles, or flight acquisition in theropod dinosaurs, which can help to better distinguish the form-function relationships and how they combine. Fossil specimens are sometimes mistakenly thought to be less viable examples because they have become extinct, but most lived for millions of years [36]. Indeed, adaptation is relative and a species can be very well adapted to its environment before a change (climate, predator, competitor) lowers its survivability.…”

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How can research on modern and fossil bones help us build more resistant columns?

Houssaye,

Etienne,

Gallic

et al. 2024

Bioinspir. Biomim.

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Bone is an economical material. Indeed, as moving a heavy skeleton is energetically costly, the vertebrate skeleton is adapted to maximise resistance to the stresses imposed with a minimum amount of material, so that bone tissue is deposited where it is needed. Using bone as a source of inspiration should therefore reduce the manufacturing cost (both financial and ecological) and increase the strength (and lifespan) of bioinspired structures. This study proposes to investigate which adaptive features of the outer shape and inner structure of bone, related to compressive strength, could be used to build bioinspired support structures. To do so, we explain the choice of the bones to be analysed and present the results of the biomechanical analyses (FEA) carried out on virtual models built from the structures of the different bone models and of the mechanical tests carried out on 3D-printed versions of these models. The compressive strength of these direct bone bio-inspired columns was compared with each other, and with those of a conventional filled cylindrical column, and of a cylindrical column whose internal structure is bio-inspired from the radius of the white rhinoceros. The results of our comparative analyses highlight that the shape of long bones is less effective than a cylinder in resisting compression but underline the interest in designing bio-inspired cylindrical columns with heterogeneous structures inspired by the radius of the white rhinoceros and the tibia of the Asian elephant, and raise the interest in studying the fossil record using the radius of the giant rhinocerotoid Paraceratherium.

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confidence: 99%