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This chapter presents a detailed literature review on the state of the art biomimetic design methods, including major approaches, methodologies, and tools to support the core stages of the biomimetic design process: Biological system search, abstraction, and transfer. Searching methods include searching in biomimetic databases or general biological databases. We present current biomimetic databases, organized by biological systems or bio-inspired products and elaborate on searching techniques in general biological databases by keywords, heuristics or functional thesauruses. Abstraction methods include various modelling approaches such as functional modelling, C-K, SBF, TRIZ based modelling and more. The transfer part is less developed and is mainly performed by comparing the biomimetic concept with the biological model.
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Cohen, Y.H., Reich, Y. (2016). Biomimetic Design Methods—Literature Review. In: Biomimetic Design Method for Innovation and Sustainability. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33997-9_3
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