Biomechanics: Concepts and Computation (Cambridge Texts in Biomedical Engineering)
Cambridge University Press, 5/14/2010
EAN 9780521172967, ISBN10: 0521172969
Paperback, 348 pages, 24.6 x 18.9 x 1.8 cm
Language: English
This is the first textbook to integrates both general and specific topics, theoretical background and biomedical engineering applications, as well as analytical and numerical approaches. This quantitative approach integrates the classical concepts of mechanics and computational modelling techniques, in a logical progression through a wide range of fundamental biomechanics principles. Online MATLAB-based software along with examples and problems using biomedical applications will motivate undergraduate biomedical engineering students to practise and test their skills. The book covers topics such as kinematics, equilibrium, stresses and strains, and also focuses on large deformations and rotations and non-linear constitutive equations, including visco-elastic behaviour and the behaviour of long slender fibre-like structures. This is the definitive textbook for students.
Preface
1. Vector 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 medium
7. Biological materials and continuum mechanics
8. Stress in three-dimensional continuous media
9. Motion
the 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. Numerical solution of one-dimensional diffusion equation
15. The one-dimensional convection-diffusion equation
16. The three-dimensional convection-diffusion equation
17. Shape functions and numerical integration
18. Infinitesimal strain elasticity problems
References
Index.
Review of the hardback: 'Biomechanics: Concepts and Computation is one of the most important textbooks written in the field of biomechanical education.' Amit Gefen, v