Abstract
Automobile engineering often demands creative and innovative concepts to achieve their performance and efficiency targets. However, the strategies used to create these concepts are evolving with time. Recently, heightened attention has been noticed to using biomimetic concepts in the field of automobile design. The studies that apply biomimicry to automobile design often exhibit improvements in vehicle performance and fuel efficiency. Consequently, biomimetic concepts have extended an opportunity to the automobile industry to generate futuristic designs with advanced technology. However, the innovations and inventions in biology are usually published with more complex terminology that is not convenient for the research community working on automobile engineering. Hence, a notable delay is present in transferring the recent discoveries in biology to engineering researches so that they can develop strategies to mimic them. The purpose of this paper is to provide a brief overview of the biomimetic design approaches that have been and can be used in automobile design. In addition, the paper includes a classification of biomimetic concepts, which reveals the current research interests and highlights the areas with a deficit of research that is required to be addressed extensively in the future.
Highlights
Biomimetics, in other words imitating life, is a creative form of technology that mimics nature in various developments that improve the quality of life of people
This paper provides an extensive review of the-state-of-art biomimetic designs developed in the automobile area
It was identified that even though there was heightened attention on innovations and inventions in biology, research related to these are usually published with more complex terminology that is not convenient for the research community working on automobile engineering
Summary
Biomimetics, in other words imitating life, is a creative form of technology that mimics nature in various developments that improve the quality of life of people. Nagel et al [2] introduce a methodology to teach the designers to implement the bio-inspired design in engineering developments using the Concept of Knowledge (C–K) theory. This method demonstrates the capability of improving the creativity and imaginative power of engineering students. The study of nature provides the best design options when designing a machine that carry-out the tasks which are currently done by biological organisms
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