Bionic Design Approach used for Sustainable Development of Future Automobile Technologies

Abstract

Bionics is an interdisciplinary ground on the way to set
up itself as a science. Utilization of structures, methods, processes
by man in biological systems in relation to technical development is
related to bionics. The term “bionic” was first coined in the midtwentieth
century, which is aimed at applying biological studies to
technical aspects such as architecture, industrial design, and
material science. In consideration of the global trend of
environmental protection, the disciplinary focal point also tends to
work on the issue of sustainable development. However, though the
researches of sustainable design and green design have been
increased, the subjects of these researches yet were mostly
undertaken from the aspects of material, structure and form; and the
application of ‘bionics’ to architecture or design seems to be treated
as a new, contemporary idea. This paper reviewed the aspects of
bionics approach related with Modern Automobile Engineering for
sustainable development.