Biomechanics
Concepts and Computation

This quantitative approach integrates the basic concepts of mechanics and computational modelling techniques for undergraduate biomedical engineering students.

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

9780521172967, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 19 August 2010

348 pages
24.6 x 18.9 x 1.8 cm, 0.62 kg

Review of the hardback: 'This text does an outstanding job of covering both the core and advanced topics of biomechanics that are appropriate to both undergraduate and beginning graduate biomedical engineering education … I strongly recommend this text to any biomedical engineering problem offering a concentration/track in biomechanics.' Robert Spilker, Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Chair, RPI, USA

This is the first textbook to integrates both general and specific topics, theoretical background and biomedical engineering applications, as well as analytical and numerical approaches. This quantitative approach integrates the classical concepts of mechanics and computational modelling techniques, in a logical progression through a wide range of fundamental biomechanics principles. Online MATLAB-based software along with examples and problems using biomedical applications will motivate undergraduate biomedical engineering students to practise and test their skills. The book covers topics such as kinematics, equilibrium, stresses and strains, and also focuses on large deformations and rotations and non-linear constitutive equations, including visco-elastic behaviour and the behaviour of long slender fibre-like structures. This is the definitive textbook for students.

Preface
1. Vector 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 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
References
Index.

Subject Areas: Molecular biology [PSD], Biomedical engineering [MQW]