Robust Designs Inspired by Biological Chiral Structures

该项目旨在了解生物手性结构的力学，以便创造新的工程设计。该项目希望通过实验、分析和数值方法，对使这些结构能够适应复杂和随机载荷的机制获得新的见解。预期成果包括设计高效和机械坚固的产品的计算平台，以及作为平台应用的风力涡轮机叶片和皮下注射针等新设计。该产品在能源采集和生物医学工程方面具有很大的潜力。该平台应该通过性能改进和健壮性增强为工程提供显著的好处。

This project aims to understand the mechanics of biological chiral structures in order to create novel engineering designs. The project expects to gain new insights into mechanisms which enable these structures to accommodate complex and random loads through experimental, analytical and numerical approaches. Expected outcomes include a computational platform for designing highly efficient and mechanically robust products, and new designs such as wind turbine blades and hypodermic needles as applications of the platform. The products should have great potential in energy harvesting and biomedical engineering. The platform should provide significant benefits to engineering through performance improvement and robustness enhancement.