Course Objectives:  The objective of this course is to provide the student with a detailed understanding of the structure and function of biosolid tissues as relevant to their mechanical behavior.  Particular tissues to be studied include bone, ligament, tendon, skeletal muscle, cardiac muscle, articular cartilage, cell membranes, and the failure of these materials.  The student will learn the origins of the material behavior of these tissues, as well as appropriate constitutive frameworks for representing their material behavior.  Relevant concepts from continuum mechanics will be reviewed in the first half of the class.  The student will learn how to formulate continuum mechanics models of biomechanical systems with appropriate boundary conditions.

Prerequisites: Background in continuum or solid mechanics helpful but not totally necessary.  Training in calculus and linear algebra required.

Grading:
    Homework 30%
    Midterm 30%
    Term Project 40%

BIOEN 7210