BIOEN 5201 - Introduction to Biomechanics - Syllabus

Last Updated 8/25/08
Week
DATE
SUBJECT
READING - OPTIONAL (Fung1= "A First Course...", Fung2="Biomechanics")
HOMEWORK
LABS
1
8/26/08
Tuesday
 Introduction; Biomechanics Research Methodology
1
8/28/08
Thursday
Index and Direct Notation
Syllabus; Spencer Ch. 2-3; Fung1 Ch. 2.3-2.4; Fung2 7.2-7.3
Homework #1 assigned 
2
9/2/08
Tuesday
Index and Direct notation (cont'd)
 
 
 
2
9/3/08
Wednesday
      
Lab 0
Lab Orientation
2
9/4/08
Thursday
Coordinate Transformation; Tensors
Spencer 3.2, 3.4
 
Lab 0
Lab Orientation
3
9/9/08
Tuesday
Statics; Free Body Diagrams
Fung1 Ch. 1.11
3
9/11/08
Thursday
Statics (cont'd)

Spencer Ch. 6.1-6.3
 
Homework #1 Due; Homework #2 assigned 
4
9/16/08
Tuesday
Coordinate Transformation Revisited;  Rigid Body Kinematics; 
Spencer Ch. 6.1-6.3
  
 
 
9/17/08
Wednesday
      
Lab 1
Rigid Body Kinematics
4
9/18/08
Thursday
Deformation Map; Homogeneous Deformations; Rigid Deformations
 
 
Lab 1
Rigid Body Kinematics
5
9/23/08
Tuesday
Deformation Gradient; Polar Decomposition; Jacobian; 
 
Spencer Ch. 2.5; 
Fung
1 Ch 5; Spencer Ch 6;
 
5
9/25/08
Thursday
Strain Tensors
Homework #2 due; Homework #3 assigned 

6
9/30/08
Tuesday
Strain Tensors (cont'd)
 
 
 
6
10/2/08
Thursday
Stress Tensor; Principal Stresses; Plane Stress
Spencer Ch. 5; Fung2 Ch. 2.1-2.2; Fung1 3.1-3.3; Fung1 Ch. 4
 
Lab 1 Report Due 
7
10/7/08
Tuesday
Review
Spencer Ch. 5.6-5.7; Spencer Ch. 7.1-7.7 and Fung1 Ch. 3.1-3.4 
Homework #3 due 
7
10/9/08
Thursday
EXAM #1
8
10/14/08
Tuesday
FALL BREAK - NO CLASS
 
 
 
8
10/16/08
Thursday
FALL BREAK - NO CLASS 
Fung1 Ch. 4
 
 
9
10/21/08
Tuesday
Review EXAM 1 solutions
10/22/08
Wednesday
 Lab 2
Strain Measurement
9
10/23/08
Thursday
Deviatoric and Dilational Stress; Stress Invariants;
Lab 2
Strain Measurement
10
10/28/08
Tuesday
Conservation Laws; The Constitutive Equation
 Spencer, Fung1 10.6
Homework #4 assigned
 
10
10/30/08
Thursday
Objectivity; Material Symmetry; Linearized Elasticity
Fung1 Ch. 8; Spencer Ch. 8.2, 8.3
  
 
11
11/4/08
Tuesday
 Linearized Elasticity (cont'd);
11
11/6/08
Thursday
Bone Structure and Composition; Bone Cells; Material Behavior of Bone
Lab 2 Report Due
12
11/11/08
Tuesday
Viscoelasticity - Discrete Models
Homework #4 due;
Homework #5 assigned
12
11/12/08
 Wednesday      
Lab 3
Ligament Viscoelasticity
12
11/13/08
Thursday
Viscoelasticity - Discrete Models (cont'd); Harmonic Oscillations
 
Lab 3
Ligament Viscoelasticity
13
11/18/08
Tuesday
Ligaments and Tendons
 
 
 
13
11/20/08
Thursday
Field Equations of Fluid Mechanics; Conservation of Mass, Eulerian; Continuity Equation; Newtonian Fluids
 
Homework #5  due
  
14
11/25/08
Tuesday
Field Equations of Fluid Mechanics (cont'd); 
Fung 1 Ch 11; Spencer Ch. 6.10; Fung2,2.6-2.7 
Homework #6 assigned
Lab 3 Report Due
14
11/27/08
Thursday
 THANKSGIVING - NO CLASS    
 
15
12/2/08
Tuesday
Examples in Fluid Mechanics
 
15
12/4/08
Thursday
Constitutive Behavior of Biofluids
 
 
16
12/9/08
Tuesday
Flow Properties of Blood
 
16
12/11/08
Thursday
Review
 Homework #6 due
 
Finals Week
12/16/08
Tuesday
 EXAM #2  (10:30 - 12:30)

 

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