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Bulletproof feathers : how science uses nature's secrets to design cutting-edge technology / edited by Robert Allen.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010.Description: 192 p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9780226014708 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0226014703
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 570.1/5195 22
LOC classification:
  • QP517.B56 B86 2010
Online resources:
Contents:
Aerodynamics of biological flight / Jeremy Rayner -- Marine dynamics / Jeannette Yen -- Humanlike robots / Yoseph Bar-Cohen -- Underwater bioacoustics / Tomonari Akamatsu -- Air acoustics / James Simmons -- Cooperative behavior / Robert Allen -- Ventilation / Steve Vogel -- New materials & natural design / Julian Vincent.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 180-189) and index.

Aerodynamics of biological flight / Jeremy Rayner -- Marine dynamics / Jeannette Yen -- Humanlike robots / Yoseph Bar-Cohen -- Underwater bioacoustics / Tomonari Akamatsu -- Air acoustics / James Simmons -- Cooperative behavior / Robert Allen -- Ventilation / Steve Vogel -- New materials & natural design / Julian Vincent.

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