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

  • Written by Anne Schmitz, Associate Professor of Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Stout
imageEngineers use structures found in nature – like the honeycomb – to create lightweight, sturdy materials. Matthew T. Rader, CC BY-NC-SA

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.

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