BIOEN 5201 - Introduction to Biomechanics - Lecture Notes


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Lectures from Fall '06

Last Updated 12/6/07

DATE
"HANDOUTS"
(REQUIRED - KNOW THIS STUFF)

SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL (OPTIONAL READING TO SUPPLEMENT LECTURE NOTES)

8/21/07 AJM Spencer, "Continuum Mechanics", Chapter 2 - Index Notation and Coordinate Transformation

RM Brannon, "Elementary and Intermediate Vector and Tensor Analysis"

8/23/07
8/28/07    
8/30/07    
9/4/07 FP Beer and ER Johnson, JR, "Vector Mechanics for Engineers:  Statics and Dynamics", Ch. 4.1-4.5; Ch. 4.8
9/6/07
9/11/07 E.S. Grood, W.J. Suntay, "A joint coordinate system for the clinical description of three-dimensional motions:  Application to the knee."  ASME Journal of Biomechanical Engineering 105:136-144, 1983. Y-C Fung, A First Course in Continuum Mechanics,  Ch. 5.1-5.3
9/13/07   AJM Spencer, "Continuum Mechanics", Chapter 6.1-6.3 - Motions and Deformations

RM Brannon, "Kinematics:  The Mathematics of Deformation"

9/18/07 AJM Spencer, "Continuum Mechanics", Chapter 5 - Stress

Y-C Fung, A First Course in Continuum Mechanics,  Ch. 3.1-3.4

9/20/07 RM Brannon, "Define Your Strain!"
9/25/07    
9/27/07   Y-C Fung, Biomechanics, Ch. 2.1-2.2
10/2/07 
10/4/07
10/9/07    
10/11/07    
10/16/07 Divergence Theorem (Marsden and Tromba, "Vector Analysis")
10/18/07
10/23/07   Y-C Fung, Biomechanics, Ch. 7.2-7.3
10/25/07    
10/30/07
11/1/07
11/6/07 Anisotropic Linearized Elasticity  
11/8/07    
11/13/07

11/15/07
11/20/07    
11/22/07 THANKSGIVING  
11/27/07 Material Derivative Derivation of Navier-Stokes Equations
 11/29/07 Equations of Motion, Continuity and Navier-Stokes Equations in Rectangular and Curvilinear Coordinates
12/4/07    
12/6/07    

 

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