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. [Image: see text]