So very true!
If you study and observe "Nature," it has all the Answers, to Structural Engineering.
Look at the coconut palm trees, on sandy soil, swinging with high top load of bunch of heavy full grown coconuts, swinging, during stormy winds too, from a stem, over may be 30-40 Feet High, or a mango tree with wide spread, supporting clusters of mangoes, from wide protruding Branches, or even high decking of rock of few tens of feet to may be few hundred feet, over laid and exposed, lying over soft stratum, or a banyan tree, with large cantilevered branches with support system of smaller ones sub-branches.
Nature has examples of true structural engineering, even in human and animal world.
Nature the great teacher of structural engineering,, to those who observe and imbibe.
I had published an article, somehow I have lost it, post some forty years before, on "Bio Engineering," which had given me an insight, in its true interpretation, of nature, the real creator!
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Original Message:
Sent: 11-05-2018 18:03
From: Andres Guzman
Subject: The system of structures built on existing structures in nature
Dear Reza, great topic!
I guess we can learn a lot of things from nature. Not only about structural components or arrangements (cortical tissue, skeletal system, skin) but also from fluid dynamics, neural arrangement and physiology, acoustics, etc. It is a beautiful area, and it is called biomimetics (https://www.nature.com/subjects/biomimetics) ... mixed with exaptation (https://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/exaptations_01).
I am a structural engineer, but during my postgraduate studies (master and doctoral studies), I worked in biomechanical modelling of the cornea (spherical recipient full of fluid), the shoulder (rotator cuff), analysis of gait parameters, tissue engineering and grip biomechanics. From a structural point of view, engineering offers all the physics and chemistry behind the functional parameters. Nevertheless, I learned more from nature and how to improve my structural designs...
By the way... engineers can also mimic the human blood! but, thousands of years could not be improvised....
It will be nice if there are more engineers involved in those beautiful areas.
Regards,
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Original Message:
Sent: 10-13-2018 18:32
From: Reza Mokarram Aydenloo
Subject: The system of structures built on existing structures in nature
can you give an example as an expert in structural engineering?
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RezaMokarramaydenlou Ph.D., P.E., C.Eng, S.E., M.ASCE
Structural Engineering and Seismic rehabilitation Consultant
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