A research worker and scholar reports on the wing construction of insects and the biophysics of insect flight

Insects in Flight; A Glimpse Behind the Scenes in Biophysical Research. (English and German Edition)

Nachtigall, Werner

Science & Math

McGraw=Hill

Describes the parts of the microscope and their functions, offers advice on upgrading equipment, and discusses optics, illumination, photomicrography, and suggested projects

Exploring With the Microscope: A Book of Discovery & Learning

Teen & Young Adult

Education & Reference

Sterling Pub. Co., Inc.

Arthropoda: Insecta, Teilband 29: Bewegungsphysiologie. Laufen, schwimmen, fliegen (Handbuch der Zoologie) (German Edition)

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Walter de Gruyter

Bionics means learning from the nature for the development of technology. The science of "bionics" itself is classified into several sections, from materials and structures over procedures and processes until evolution and optimization. Not all these areas, or only a few, are really known in the public and also in scientific literature. This includes the Lotus-effect, converted to the contamination-reduction of fassades and the shark-shed-effect, converted to the resistance-reduction of airplanes. However, there are hundreds of highly interesting examples that contain the transformation of principles of the nature into technology. From the large number of these examples, 250 were selected for the present book according to "prehistory", "early-history", "classic" and "modern time". Most examples are new. Every example includes a printed page in a homogeneous arrangement. The examples from the field "modern time" are joint in blocks corresponding to the sub-disciplines of bionics.

Bionics by Examples: 250 Scenarios from Classical to Modern Times

Computers & Technology

Wisser, Alfred

Programming

Springer

This book provides the readers with a timely guide to the application of biomimetic principles in architecture and engineering design. As a result of a combined effort by two internationally recognized authorities, the biologist Werner Nachtigall and the architect Göran Pohl, the book describes the principles which can be used to compare nature and technology, and at the same time it presents detailed explanations and examples showing how biology can be used as a source of inspiration and “translated” in building and architectural solutions (biomimicry). Even though nature cannot be directly copied, the living world can provide architects and engineers with a wealth of analogues and inspirations for their own creative designs. But how can analysis of natural entities give rise to advanced and sustainable design? By reporting on the latest bionic design methods and using extensive artwork, the book guides readers through the field of nature-inspired architecture, offering an extraordinary resource for professional architects, engineers, designers and urban planners, as well as for university teachers, researchers and students. Natural evolution is seen throughout the book as a powerful resource that can serve architecture and design by providing innovative, optimal and sustainable solutions.

Biomimetics for Architecture & Design: Nature - Analogies - Technology

Pohl, Göran

This book will take you on an exciting journey made up of texts and images. Spectacular, large-scale photographs printed on double pages and accompanied by explanatory texts will arouse the reader’s curiosity about evolution’s accomplishments in the world of flying: from the botanical air fleet (pollen grains, flying seeds…), over flying snakes and fish, to penguins flying underwater and humans rising into the air. Mathematician and passionate animal photographer Georg Glaser has joined forces with the experienced evolutionary biologist Hannes Paulus and the exercise physiologist and flight biophysicist Werner Nachtigall in order to approach this topic with words and pictures in a way that is both generally comprehensible and scientifically sound. Double-page by double-page, the book can be read in any order. Cross-references allow to jump easily from one double-page to another. Aside from the detailed introduction to each chapter, the text passages are usually independent from one another, and they discuss crucial moments in the evolutionary process. The double-pages provide additional information on bibliographical references and references to informative websites.

The Evolution of Flight

Glaeser, Georg

Paulus, Hannes F.

Biological Sciences

Bionik: Lernen von der Natur

Beck C. H.

Einführung in biologisches Denken und Arbeiten (Biologische Arbeitsbücher ; 15) (German Edition)

Quelle und Meyer

Physikalische Randbedingungen beherrschen die belebte Welt bis in die kleinsten Details. Analogien aus Biologie und Technik miteinander zu vergleichen, stärkt das Verständnis für die Zusammenhänge. Beide Gesichtspunkte sind hier am Beispiel der Mechanik dargestellt. Aus dem Bereich der Energetik sind einige Aspekte mit aufgenommen, ohne die die Probleme des Wärmehaushalts und der Lokomotion bei Tieren nicht zu verstehen sind; sie ergänzen die reine Biomechanik. Die Darstellung ist so einfach wie möglich gehalten. Sie wendet sich an Studierende technischer Disziplinen, die einen Einblick in die Zusammenhänge mit der Biologie brauchen wie auch an Biowissenschaftler, die sich in einführender Weise über Technische Mechanik informieren wollen.

Biomechanik: Grundlagen Beispiele Übungen (German Edition)

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

Vieweg+Teubner Verlag

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