BIOEN 5201 - Introduction to Biomechanics - Syllabus
Last Updated 11/18/04
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DATE |
SUBJECT |
READING - OPTIONAL (Fung1= "A First Course...", Fung2="Biomechanics") |
HOMEWORK |
LABS |
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1 |
8/26/04 |
Thursday |
Introduction; Biomechanics Research Methodology |
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2 |
8/31/04 |
Tuesday |
Index and Direct Notation |
Syllabus; Spencer Ch. 2-3; Fung1 Ch. 2.3-2.4; Fung2 7.2-7.3 |
Homework #1 assigned |
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2 |
9/2/04 |
Thursday |
Index and Direct notation (cont'd); Statics |
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3 |
9/7/04 |
Tuesday |
Statics (cont'd); Free Body Diagrams |
Fung1 Ch. 1.11 |
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3 |
9/9/04 |
Thursday |
Coordinate Transformation; Tensors
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Spencer 3.2, 3.4 |
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4 |
9/14/04 |
Tuesday |
Coordinate Transformation (cont'd); Finite Deformation Kinematics; Deformations; Rigid Body Kinematics |
Spencer Ch. 6.1-6.3 |
Homework #1 Due; Homework #2 assigned |
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4 |
9/15/04 |
Wednesday |
Lab 1
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4 |
9/16/04 |
Thursday |
Physical Representation of Deformation Gradient; Homogeneous Deformations; Deformation Gradient |
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Lab 1
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5 |
9/21/04 |
Tuesday |
Polar Decomposition; Jacobian; Strain Tensors |
Spencer Ch. 2.5;
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5 |
9/23/04 |
Thursday |
Strain Tensor (cont'd) |
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6 |
9/28/04 |
Tuesday |
Stress Tensor; Principal Stresses; Plane Stress |
Spencer Ch. 5; Fung2 Ch. 2.1-2.2; Fung1 3.1-3.3; Fung1 Ch. 4 |
Homework #2 due; Homework #3 assigned |
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6 |
9/29/04 |
Wednesday |
Lab 2
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6 |
9/30/04 |
Thursday |
Deviatoric and Dilational Stress; Stress Invariants; Conservation LawsJW OUT OF TOWN |
Spencer Ch. 5.6-5.7; Spencer Ch. 7.1-7.7 and Fung1 Ch. 3.1-3.4 |
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Lab 2
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7 |
10/5/04 |
Tuesday |
Constituents of Biological Materials; Origins of Anisotropy and Viscoelasticity in Biosolids |
Fung2 7.2-7.3; |
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Lab 1 Report Due |
7 |
10/7/04 |
Thursday |
FALL BREAK - NO CLASS |
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8 |
10/12/04 |
Tuesday |
Review |
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Homework #3 due |
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8 |
10/14/04 |
Thursday |
EXAM #1 |
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9 |
10/19/04 |
Tuesday |
Bone Structure and Composition; Bone Cells |
Fung2 12.1-12.3 |
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9 |
10/21/04 |
Thursday |
Review EXAM 1 solutions; The Constitutive Equation; Objectivity; Material Symmetry |
Spencer, Fung1 |
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10 |
10/26/04 |
Tuesday |
Material Behavior of Bone, Linearized Elasticity |
Fung1 Ch. 9.4-9.5; Fung2 Ch. 2.8, 2.10; |
Homework #4 assigned |
Lab 2 Report Due |
10 |
10/28/04 |
Thursday |
Bone (cont'd); Viscoelasticity - Discrete Models |
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 |
11/2/04 |
Tuesday |
Viscoelasticity - Discrete Models (cont'd); Harmonic Oscillations |
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11 |
11/3/04 |
Wednesday |
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Lab 3
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11 |
11/4/04 |
Thursday |
Viscoelasticity - General Linear 1D and 3D; Ligaments and Tendons |
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Lab 3
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12 |
11/9/04 |
Tuesday |
Ligaments and Tendons (cont'd) |
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12 |
11/11/04 |
Thursday |
Articular Cartilage - Function, Morphology, Microstructure; Articular Cartilage - Biphasic Theory |
Homework #4 due |
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13 |
11/16/04 |
Tuesday |
Articular Cartilage (cont'd) |
Fung2 12.7-12.9 |
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11/17/04 |
Wednesday |
Lab 4
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13 |
11/18/04 |
Thursday |
Field Equations of Fluid Mechanics; Conservation of Mass, Eulerian; Continuity Equation; Newtonian Fluids |
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Homework #5 assigned |
Lab 4
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14 |
11/23/04 |
Tuesday |
Field Equations of Fluid Mechanics (cont'd); Constitutive Behavior of Biofluids |
Fung 1 Ch 11; Spencer Ch. 6.10; Fung2,2.6-2.7 |
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14 |
11/24/04 |
Wednesday |
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14 |
11/25/04 |
Thursday |
THANKSGIVING - NO CLASS |
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15 |
11/30/04 |
Tuesday |
Flow Properties of Blood; |
Fung1 Ch. 7.2-7.3; Spencer Ch. 8.4; Fung2 Ch. 3 |
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15 |
12/2/04 |
Thursday |
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Homework #5 due |
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16 |
12/7/04 |
Tuesday |
Review |
Lab 4 Report Due |
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16 |
12/9/04 |
Thursday |
EXAM #2 |
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