Dragonfly‐Inspired Wing Design Enabled by Machine Learning and Maxwell's Reciprocal Diagrams (Adv. Sci. 18/2023)

Bio-Inspired Structures This research resorts to artificial intelligence to inspire from a 2D dragonfly wing skeleton for developing an internal structure of airplane wings. It relates the thickness of the dragonfly members to the in-plane static equilibrium of forces using Maxwell reciprocal diagrams. The hybrid experimental and numerical tests suggest up to 25% improvements in the out-of-plane stiffness of the wing. More details can be found in article number 2207635 by Abdolhamid Akbarzadeh, Masoud Akbarzadeh, and co-workers. Image credit for the background: Steve Zimmerman.