BIOEN 5201 - Introduction to Biomechanics - Syllabus
Last Updated 11/6/01
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SUBJECT |
READING - OPTIONAL (Fung1= "A First Course...", Fung2="Biomechanics") |
HOMEWORK |
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8/23/01 |
Thursday |
Introduction; Constituents of Biosolids; Index and Direct Notation |
Course Description, Syllabus; Spencer Ch. 2-3; Fung1 Ch. 2.3-2.4; Fung2 7.2-7.3 |
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8/28/01 |
Tuesday |
Index and Direct Notation (cont'd); Tensors |
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Homework #1 assigned |
8/30/01 |
Thursday |
Finite Deformation Kinematics |
Spencer Ch. 6.1-6.3; |
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9/4/01 |
Tuesday |
Finite Deformation Kinematics (cont'd); Strain Tensors; Constituents of Biological Materials; Origins of Anisotropy and Viscoelasticity in Biosolids; |
Fung1 Ch 5.1-5.2; Fung2 7.2-7.3; |
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9/6/01 |
Thursday |
Rate of Deformation; Stress; The Constitutive Equation; Objectivity; Material Symmetry |
Spencer Ch. 6.8-6.9; Spencer Ch. 5; Fung2 Ch. 2.1-2.2; Fung1 3.1-3.3 |
Homework #1 Due; Homework #2 assigned |
9/11/01 |
Tuesday |
Conservation Laws |
Spencer Ch. 7.1-7.7 and Fung1 Ch. 3.1-3.4 |
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9/13/01 |
Thursday |
Conservation Laws (cont'd); Bone- Structure, Composition, Bone Cells |
Fung2 12.1-12.3 |
Homework #2 due; Homework #3 assigned |
9/18/01 |
Tuesday |
Constitutive Behavior of Bone |
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9/20/01 |
Thursday |
Regulation of Bone Growth; Bone Adaptation; Injury and Healing |
Fung2 12.6 |
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9/25/01 |
Tuesday |
Bone; Review |
Homework #3 due |
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9/27/01 |
Thursday |
Review |
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10/2/01 |
Tuesday |
EXAM #1 |
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10/4/01 |
Thursday |
FALL BREAK - NO CLASS |
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10/9/01 |
Tuesday |
Discuss Exam 1 Solutions |
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10/11/01 |
Thursday |
Bone (cont'd) |
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10/16/01 |
Tuesday |
Rigid Body Kinematics; Direct Linear Transformation |
Homework #4 assigned |
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10/18/01 |
Thursday |
Rigid Body Kinematics (cont'd); |
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10/23/01 |
Tuesday |
Field Equations of Fluid Mechanics; Constitutive Behavior of Biofluids |
Fung 1 Ch 11; Spencer Ch. 6.10; Fung2,2.6-2.7 |
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10/25/01 |
Thursday |
Flow Properties of Blood |
Fung1 Ch. 7.2-7.3, Fung2 Ch. 3; Spencer Ch. 8.4; |
Homework #4 due; |
10/30/01 |
Tuesday |
Blood (cont'd); Alternate Stress tensors |
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11/1/01 |
Thursday |
Hyperelasticity |
Spencer Ch. 8.3, 9.4, 9.5,10.2 |
Homework #5 due |
11/6/01 |
Tuesday |
Hyperelasticity (cont'd) |
Homework #6 (Part I) assigned |
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11/8/01 |
Thursday |
Skeletal and Cardiac Muscle; Cardiac Muscle / Coronary Artery Mechanics |
Fung2 Ch. 9, 10; Fung2 Ch. 8 |
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11/13/01 |
Tuesday |
Viscoelasticity - Discrete Models, Linear; Harmonic Oscillations |
Fung1 Ch. 9.6-9.7; Fung2 Ch. 2.11-2.12, Ch. 7; Spencer Ch. 8.5, 10.4 |
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11/15/01 |
Thursday |
Viscoelasticity - Quasilinear; Introduction to Biofluid Mechanics; |
Fung1 Ch. 9.4-9.5; Fung2 Ch. 2.8, 2.10; |
Homework #6 (Part I) due; Homework #6 (Part II) assigned |
11/20/01 |
Tuesday |
Mechanics of Cells and Cell Membranes; Mechanotransduction; Tissue Engineering Applications of Biomechanics; COURSE EVALUATIONS |
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11/22/01 |
Thursday |
THANKSGIVING - NO CLASS |
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11/27/01 |
Tuesday |
Ligaments and Tendons - Function; Morphology and microstructure; Constituents and chemical composition; The role of the fibroblast |
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Homework #6 (Part II) due |
11/29/01 |
Thursday |
Ligaments and Tendons (cont'd); Adaptation; Injury and Healing |
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12/4/01 |
Tuesday |
Review |
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12/6/01 |
Thursday |
EXAM #2 |
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