BIOEN 5201 - Introduction to Biomechanics - Syllabus

 

Week Topic
Deformation and stress in tissue
1 Stress tensor
1 Nonlinear strain in tissue
2  Measurement of nonlinear strain in soft tissue
Constitutive behavior of biosolids
3  General framework, linear models, nonlinear models, anisotropy, relaxation
4  Bone, ligaments
4  Arteries, veins, Prestress in tissues
Biosolid mechanics
Stress in bone
5  Interaction of bone with implants
5 Ligaments and tendons
Constitutive behavior of biofluids
6  Hemoglobin, cytoplasm
6  Blood, apparent viscosity, arterial vs. capillary flow
Biofluid Dynamics
Reynolds, Stokes and Womersley: laminar, turbulent, etc.
7  Pulsitile flow in large arteries
Biofluid-structure Interactions
8  Cells, cell poking, pipette methods
Blood flow, wave propagation, vascular grafts, networks
Skeletal Muscle Mechanics
10  Actin-myosin cross bridge kinetics, enhanced Huxley model
11  Sarcomeres to whole muscle
Segmental Biomechanics
12  Segmental rigid-body kinematics and dynamics
13  Inverse dynamics, estimation of joint forces and moments
13  Force sharing, estimation of muscle forces
Control of Motion
14  Sensory systems
14 Auditory, vestibular, visual, tactile
14 feedback control

 

BIOEN 5201