BIOEN 7210 - Biosolid Mechanics - Syllabus

Last Updated 3/4/03
DATE
SUBJECT
READING (Fung1= "A First Course...", Fung2="Biomechanics")
HOMEWORK
1/7/03
Tuesday
Review - Index and Direct Notation, Tensors
Course Description, Syllabus; Spencer Ch. 2-3; Fung1 Ch. 2.3-2.4
 
1/9/03
Thursday
Review - Tensors, Finite Deformation
Spencer Ch. 6.1-6.3; Fung1 Ch 5.1-5.2
Homework #1 assigned
1/14/03
Tuesday
Finite Deformation (cont'd); Polar Decomposition
 
1/16/03
Thursday
NO CLASS - JW OUT OF TOWN
1/21/03
Tuesday
Strain
Constituents of Biosolids; Origins of Anisotropy in Biosolids; Origins of Viscoelasticity in Biosolids
Stress and The Constitutive Equation; Objectivity; Material Symmetry
Fung2 7.2-7.3
Spencer Ch. 5; Fung2 Ch. 2.1-2.2; Fung1 3.1-3.3
Homework #1 Due
 
1/23/03
Thursday
Conservation Laws; Hyperelasticity
Spencer Ch. 7.1-7.7 and Fung1 Ch. 3.1-3.4
 
 
1/28/03
Tuesday
Hyperelasticity - Isotropic
Deadline for selection of term project topic; Homework #2 assigned
1/30/03
Thursday
Hyperelasticity - Anisotropic
2/4/03
Tuesday
ORS MEETING - NO CLASS
 
  
2/6/03
Thursday
Hyperelasticity - Uncoupled Deviatoric/Dilational Behavior
 
Homework #2 due
2/11/03
Tuesday
Nothing new...
 
Homework #3 assigned 
2/13/03
Thursday
Uncoupled Deviatoric/Dilational Behavior (cont'd) 
 
2/18/03
Tuesday
Residual Stresses and Strains
 
 
2/20/03
Thursday
Review
 
Homework #3 due
2/25/03
Tuesday
Midterm Exam
2/27/03
Thursday
Viscoelasticity - Discrete Models, Linear, Quasilinear
 
 
3/4/03
Tuesday
Viscoelasticity - nonlinear
 
 
3/06/03
Thursday
Blood Vessels
 
Homework #4 assigned
3/11/03
Tuesday
Skeletal Muscle; Student Presentation (Andrew Anderson)
3/13/03
Thursday
Skeletal  Muscle; Student Presentation (Will Newman)
Homework #4 due 
3/18/03
Tuesday
SPRING BREAK - NO CLASS
 
 
3/20/03
Thursday
SPRING BREAK - NO CLASS
 
 
3/25/03
Tuesday
Cardiac Muscle (Alex Veress); Student Presentation (Meredith Roberts)
 
3/27/03
Thursday
Cardiac Muscle / Coronary Artery Mechanics (Alex Veress); Student Presentation (Ephraim Akyuz)
 
4/1/03
Tuesday
Biphasic Theory; Articular Cartilage; Student Presentation (Trevor Lujan)
 
 
4/3/03
Thursday
Biphasic Theory; Articular Cartilage; Student Presentation (John Marble)
 
 
4/8/03
Tuesday
Cell Membranes; Student Presentation (Nate Pack)
 
 
4/10/03
Thursday
Cell Membranes; Student Presentation (Nikhil Phatak)
 
 
4/15/03
Tuesday
Mechanotransduction; Student Presentation (Johnny Rhodes)
 
 
4/17/03
Thursday
Mechanotransduction; Student Presentation (Teri Rosenbaum)
 
 
4/22/03
Tuesday
 Failure of Biosolids; Student Presentation (Yuan Zhang, Steven Michael)
 
 

 

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