Biomimicry
"With nature has to be done, she creates a genius to do it" - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Biomimicry - The design and production of materials, structures, and systems that are modeled on biological entities and processes.
Example: The Submarine
Biomimicry - The design and production of materials, structures, and systems that are modeled on biological entities and processes.
Example: The Submarine
Biomimicry is an approach to innovation that seeks solutions to real world challenges by emulating nature's time tested patterns and strategies...
The goal is to create products, processes, and policies; new ways of living that are well adapted to life on earth over the long run. The core idea is that nature has already solved many of the problems we are grappling with; animals, plants, and microbes are the consummate engineers.
As we discuss more about the innovations derived from Biomimicry, I would like to discuss how Biomimicry impacted the design of the Submarine...
The goal is to create products, processes, and policies; new ways of living that are well adapted to life on earth over the long run. The core idea is that nature has already solved many of the problems we are grappling with; animals, plants, and microbes are the consummate engineers.
As we discuss more about the innovations derived from Biomimicry, I would like to discuss how Biomimicry impacted the design of the Submarine...
The Submarine
The Submarine, a warship with a streamlined hull designed to operate completely submerged in the sea for long periods
Submarines were designed as warships to submerge and descend in deep sea levels, they were designed to intercept enemy intel and engage in sea engagements with enemy forces during Warfare.
But how was the innovation of the Submarine formed?
The Submarine derived from aquatic and sonar capable animals.
Such as the Sun Fish and Bats
Submarines were designed as warships to submerge and descend in deep sea levels, they were designed to intercept enemy intel and engage in sea engagements with enemy forces during Warfare.
But how was the innovation of the Submarine formed?
The Submarine derived from aquatic and sonar capable animals.
Such as the Sun Fish and Bats
The Sunfish
The Sunfish, being the world's heaviest bony fish and unlike most bony fish, has no gas-filled swim bladder. Therefore has the ability to withstand volume changes from pressure in deep water. The Sunfish is a creature that innovated the possibility for submarines to be able to submerge at deep sea levels.
The Sunfish has a neutral buoyancy at any depth, thanks to a thick layer of water rich, incompressible, gelatinous tissue just below the skin. Fun fact, the Sunfish has almost the exact same body density as seawater.
Thus Submarines capabilities to withstand multiple varied volume changes in pressure in water were established. Deriving from the Sunfish, the submarine was developed and designed as an airtight container that had similar buoyancy as sea water just like the Sunfish.
The Submarines inner haul protects the sub-crew from the immense water pressure of the ocean depths and insulates the sub from the freezing temperatures. The Outer haul shapes the submarine's body, and the ballast tanks control the sub's buoyancy.
The Sunfish has a neutral buoyancy at any depth, thanks to a thick layer of water rich, incompressible, gelatinous tissue just below the skin. Fun fact, the Sunfish has almost the exact same body density as seawater.
Thus Submarines capabilities to withstand multiple varied volume changes in pressure in water were established. Deriving from the Sunfish, the submarine was developed and designed as an airtight container that had similar buoyancy as sea water just like the Sunfish.
The Submarines inner haul protects the sub-crew from the immense water pressure of the ocean depths and insulates the sub from the freezing temperatures. The Outer haul shapes the submarine's body, and the ballast tanks control the sub's buoyancy.
The Bat
The Bat's survival depends on the their to obtain food resources. To find resources, and due to poor vision; Bats will use sonar to find food and avoid obstacles. Much the way our military sonar systems detects other submarines and mines.
Sonars of Submarines derived from Bats, bats make sounds, listen to echoes, and then see outlines of objects. Bats have a method of doing synthetic aperture sonar while flying that not only determines the distance and direction of all the objects in scene, but also reconstructs one specific object's shape.
Sonars work in the same way, using echo waves. When an animal or machine for example, makes a noise, it sends sound waves into the environment around it. Those waves bounce off nearby objects, and some of them reflects to the object that originally made the noise.
Sonars of Submarines derived from Bats, bats make sounds, listen to echoes, and then see outlines of objects. Bats have a method of doing synthetic aperture sonar while flying that not only determines the distance and direction of all the objects in scene, but also reconstructs one specific object's shape.
Sonars work in the same way, using echo waves. When an animal or machine for example, makes a noise, it sends sound waves into the environment around it. Those waves bounce off nearby objects, and some of them reflects to the object that originally made the noise.