Biomechanics

Concepts and Computation

Cees Oomens, Marcel Brekelmans, Sandra Loerakker, Frank Baaijens

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN:
  9781107163720
• Edition: 2
• eBook ISBN:
  9781316730423
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Engineering General
• Index: Technology & Engineering

Thoroughly revised and updated for the second edition, this comprehensive textbook integrates basic and advanced concepts of mechanics with numerical methods and biomedical applications. Coverage is expanded to include a complete introduction to vector and tensor calculus, and new or fully updated chapters on biological materials and continuum mechanics, motion, deformation and rotation, and constitutive modelling of solids and fluids. Topics such as kinematics, equilibrium, and stresses and strains are also included, as well as the mechanical behaviour of fibres and the analysis of one-dimensional continuous elastic media. Numerical solution procedures based on the Finite Element Method are presented, with accompanying MATLAB-based software and dozens of new biomedical engineering examples and exercises allowing readers to practise and improve their skills. Solutions for instructors are also available online. This is the definitive guide for both undergraduate and graduate students taking courses in biomechanics.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title page
• Series page
• Reviews
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• About the Cover
• Preface to the First Edition
• Preface to the Second Edition
• 1 Vector and Tensor Calculus
• 2 The Concepts of Force and Moment
• 3 Static Equilibrium
• 4 The Mechanical Behaviour of Fibres
• 5 Fibres: Time-Dependent Behaviour
• 6 Analysis of a One-Dimensional Continuous Elastic Medium
• 7 Biological Materials and Continuum Mechanics
• 8 Stress in Three-Dimensional Continuous Media
• 9 Motion: Time as an Extra Dimension
• 10 Deformation and Rotation, Deformation Rate and Spin
• 11 Local Balance of Mass, Momentum and Energy
• 12 Constitutive Modelling of Solids and Fluids
• 13 Solution Strategies for Solid and Fluid Mechanics Problems
• 14 Solution of the One-Dimensional Diffusion Equation by Means of the Finite Element Method
• 15 Solution of the One-Dimensional Convection–Diffusion Equation by Means of the Finite Element Method
• 16 Solution of the Three-Dimensional Convection–Diffusion Equation by Means of the Finite Element Method
• 17 Shape Functions and Numerical Integration
• 18 Infinitesimal Strain Elasticity Problems
• References
• Index