Design and Nature II

Section 1: Architectural design and structures Form-optimizing processes in biological structures - self-generating structures in nature based on pneumatics; Sacred geometry in nature and Persian architecture; Complexity in architecture: a small scale analysis; Similarities between "structures in nature" and "man-made structures": biomimesis in architecture; Neural networks and information interchange in buildings; Assessing the parametric building model capabilities in minimizing change orders; Making reasonable decisions for a greening plan: effects of the distribution of shading duration by building structures; Influence of consolidation and interweaving on compression behaviour of IsoTruss (TM) structures; Contemporary Streamkeepers: a comparison of two urban horticultural restoration programs in arid California; Aesthetic tradition and ancient technology: a case study of the water-wheel Section 2: Architecture and sustainability A sustainable house for the southeastern United States; Self-adaptive and sustainable buildings; Determination of the reference building form concerning thermal comfort and minimum heat loss; Architecture and nature: maintenance and conservation of mountain architecture; Durability and degradation of natural stone in Syracusan facades:materials and techniques compatible for recovery interventions Section 3: Acoustics Bio-mimics for sound and vibration technologies; Music, nature and structural form; The criterion of noise attenuation by hedges Section 4: Biology The mechanical self-optimisation of trees; Application of fractional calculus in modeling and solving the bioheat equation; Electro-osmotically driven flow near a soil animal body surface and biomimetics; The efficiency of the explosive discharge of the bombardier beetle, with possible biomimetic applications; The development of a miniature mechanism for producing insect wing motion; Study on the wettability and self-cleaning of butterfly wing surfaces; A 3-D finite element analysis of the sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) fruit under impact: a useful approach for the understanding and improvement of its hullability; Structural formation of mandibles by a cellular automaton model; Characteristics of the non-smooth surface morphology of living creatures and its application in agricultural engineering; Bamboo as a composite structure and its mechanically failure behaviour; Genetic analysis of coordinate flagellar and type III regulatory circuits in pathogenic bacteria Section 5: Biomimetics Designed porous and multi-scale flow structures; Inherent benefits in microscale fractal-like devices for enhanced transport phenomena; Lessons learned from the exquisite design of the endothelial surface glycocalyx and their amazing applications; Structural analysis of sludge floc; Learning from nature in building sustainable chemical technology; Two-objective optimization and robustness Section 6: Design philosophy and methods Applications of the finite vortex model; Dissipative structures, complexity and strange attractors: keynotes for a new eco-aesthetics; Material/matter/mater: the fundamental integrating principles; The phi code in nature, architecture and engineering; Isotopic diversity in natural and engineering design; Advanced reverse design through a new biologically based system Section 7: Human biology and medicine Cells, gels and mechanics; Determination of pain intensity in newborns by time series analysis; Modelling the human upper body in three-dimensional motion; Blood flow in vessels with artificial or pathological geometrical changes Section 8: Materials Computational biomimetics of twisted plywood architectures in fibrous biological composites through chiral liquid crystal self-assembly; Biomimetic manufacturing of fibers; On uniqueness of fibrous materials; The difference in tensile behaviour of different silks of the spider A. diadematus; Experimental investigation on anti-wear of a bionic non-smooth surface made by laser texturing; Imitating nature in building up thermodynamically stable layers on metals for protection against corrosion; Bio-prototyping; Bionic improvement of soil bulldozing plates; Reduction of sliding resistance between clay and bionics plates Section 9: Nature and architectural design Matching nature with 'Complex Geometry' - an architectural history; 'Praxis of Inquiry' in architectural design; Structural design in nature and in architecture Section 10: Space Biomimetics applied to space exploration; Space flower: the bionic system for satellite thermal regulation