Bulletproof feathers : how science uses nature's secrets to design cutting-edge technology /
Bulletproof feathers : how science uses nature's secrets to design cutting-edge technology /
edited by Robert Allen.
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010.
- 192 p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 180-189) and index.
Aerodynamics of biological flight / Jeremy Rayner -- Marine dynamics / Jeannette Yen -- Humanlike robots / Yoseph Bar-Cohen -- Underwater bioacoustics / Tomonari Akamatsu -- Air acoustics / James Simmons -- Cooperative behavior / Robert Allen -- Ventilation / Steve Vogel -- New materials & natural design / Julian Vincent.
9780226014708 (cloth : alk. paper) 0226014703
2009037097
Biomimetics.
Robotics.
QP517.B56 / B86 2010
570.1/5195
Includes bibliographical references (p. 180-189) and index.
Aerodynamics of biological flight / Jeremy Rayner -- Marine dynamics / Jeannette Yen -- Humanlike robots / Yoseph Bar-Cohen -- Underwater bioacoustics / Tomonari Akamatsu -- Air acoustics / James Simmons -- Cooperative behavior / Robert Allen -- Ventilation / Steve Vogel -- New materials & natural design / Julian Vincent.
9780226014708 (cloth : alk. paper) 0226014703
2009037097
Biomimetics.
Robotics.
QP517.B56 / B86 2010
570.1/5195