<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <article key="pdf/10012013" mdate="2021-04-04 00:00:00"> <author>Pratap Sriram Sundar and Chandan Chowdhury and Sagar Kamarthi</author> <title>An Analysis of Uncoupled Designs in Chicken Egg</title> <pages>197 - 201</pages> <year>2021</year> <volume>15</volume> <number>5</number> <journal>International Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering</journal> <ee>https://publications.waset.org/pdf/10012013</ee> <url>https://publications.waset.org/vol/173</url> <publisher>World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology</publisher> <abstract>Nature has perfected her designs over 3.5 billion years of evolution. Research fields such as biomimicry, biomimetics, bionics, bioinspired computing, and natureinspired designs have explored naturemade artifacts and systems to understand nature&amp;amp;rsquo;s mechanisms and intelligence. Learning from nature, the researchers have generated sustainable designs and innovation in a variety of fields such as energy, architecture, agriculture, transportation, communication, and medicine. Axiomatic design offers a method to judge if a design is good. This paper analyzes design aspects of one of the nature&amp;amp;rsquo;s amazing object chicken egg. The functional requirements (FRs) of components of the object are tabulated and mapped on to naturechosen design parameters (DPs). The &amp;amp;lsquo;independence axiom&amp;amp;rsquo; of the axiomatic design methodology is applied to analyze couplings and to evaluate if eggs&amp;amp;rsquo; design is good (i.e., uncoupled design) or bad (i.e., coupled design). The analysis revealed that eggs design is a good design, i.e., uncoupled design. This approach can be applied to any nature&amp;amp;rsquo;s artifacts to judge whether their design is a good or a bad. This methodology is valuable for biomimicry studies. This approach can also be a very useful teaching design consideration of biology and bioinspired innovation.</abstract> <index>Open Science Index 173, 2021</index> </article>