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 | |
| 4 | 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 | |
| 6 | Reynolds, Stokes and Womersley: laminar, turbulent, etc. |
| 7 | Pulsitile flow in large arteries |
| Biofluid-structure Interactions | |
| 8 | Cells, cell poking, pipette methods |
| 9 | 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 |
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