Bio-inspired Geotechnical Engineering: Principles, Current Work, Opportunities and Challenges

This paper is the product of the 1st International Workshop on Bio-Inspired Geotechnics, held in May 2019 in Pacific Grove, California, USA. The 1st International Workshop on Bio-inspired Geotechnics was funded in part by the US National Science Foundation under Grant No. CMMI-1821029 and the NSF-funded Center for Biomediated and Bioinspired Geotechnics (CBBG) under Grant No. EEC-1449501. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in these materials are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.