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Building with air – how nature’s hole-filled blueprints shape manufacturing

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par Anne Schmitz, Associate Professor of Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Stout

If you break open a chicken bone, you won’t find a solid mass of white material inside. Instead, you will see a complex, spongelike network of tiny struts and pillars, and a lot of empty space.

It looks fragile, yet that internal structure allows a bird’s wing to withstand high winds while remaining light enough for flight. Nature rarely builds with solid blocks. Instead, it builds with clever, porous patterns to maximize strength while minimizing weight.

Human engineers have always envied this efficiency. You can see it in the hexagonal…

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