A MECHANICS STUDY ON ADAPTIVENESS OF BIOLOGIC MORPHOLOGIES AND STRUCTURE AND ITS APPLICATIONS

By means of the microstructures and morphologies of bone, bamboo and biologic branch systems in nature, the adaptiveness of the biologic morphologies and structures is studied from the viewpoint of mechanics. Some engineering applications are briefly introduced, such as self-healing materials on the basis of the reconstruction mechanism of bone, design methodologies of stiffener distribution for thin plate structures and cooling channel layout in the heat transfer systems on the basis of the growth mechanism of the biologic branch systems. The engineering materials and structures as well as their design methodologies based on the growth mechanisms of the living things in nature can break through some limits of the conventional products and methods. It can be said that the study on the relationship between the morphologies and materials of living things, and their functional performance and strengths, as well as the ideal engineering materials and structural design methodologies, is a very important research topic.