Biomechanics
Concepts and Computation

A fully updated second edition integrating basic and advanced concepts of mechanics with numerical methods and biomedical applications.

Cees Oomens (Author), Marcel Brekelmans (Author), Sandra Loerakker (Author), Frank Baaijens (Author)

9781107163720, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 8 February 2018

420 pages, 280 b/w illus. 6 tables 151 exercises
25.3 x 19.3 x 2.2 cm, 1.06 kg

'Biomechanics: Concepts and Computation remains one of the strongest textbooks ever written in the field of biomechanical education. The theory in the book is thorough and rigorous, and is extremely well illustrated with numerous excellent exercises. I find the chapters describing numerical implementation and finite element formulations especially useful for translating the theory of tissue mechanics to bioengineering practice. I am using this book routinely in my undergraduate and graduate courses and will continue to do so with this second edition.' Amit Gefen, Tel Aviv University, Israel

Thoroughly revised and updated for the second edition, this comprehensive textbook integrates basic and advanced concepts of mechanics with numerical methods and biomedical applications. Coverage is expanded to include a complete introduction to vector and tensor calculus, and new or fully updated chapters on biological materials and continuum mechanics, motion, deformation and rotation, and constitutive modelling of solids and fluids. Topics such as kinematics, equilibrium, and stresses and strains are also included, as well as the mechanical behaviour of fibres and the analysis of one-dimensional continuous elastic media. Numerical solution procedures based on the Finite Element Method are presented, with accompanying MATLAB-based software and dozens of new biomedical engineering examples and exercises allowing readers to practise and improve their skills. Solutions for instructors are also available online. This is the definitive guide for both undergraduate and graduate students taking courses in biomechanics.

1. Vector and tensor calculus
2. The concepts of force and moment
3. Static equilibrium
4. The mechanical behaviour of fibres
5. Fibres: time-dependent behaviour
6. Analysis of a one-dimensional continuous elastic medium
7. Biological materials and continuum mechanics
8. Stress in three-dimensional continuous media
9. Motion: the time as an extra dimension
10. Deformation and rotation, deformation rate and spin
11. Local balance of mass, momentum and energy
12. Constitutive modelling of solids and fluids
13. Solution strategies for solid and fluid mechanics problems
14. Numerical solution of one-dimensional diffusion equation
15. The one-dimensional convection-diffusion equation
16. The three-dimensional convection-diffusion equation
17. Shape functions and numerical integration
18. Infinitesimal strain elasticity problems.

Subject Areas: Biomedical engineering [MQW]