Introduction to continuum biomechanics
By: Kyriacos A. Athanasiou and Roman M. Natoli
Contributors: Natoli, Roman M.
Series: Synthesis lectures on biomedical engineering -- #19
Publisher: Morgan & Claypool Publishers
Published: 2008
Place of publication: San Rafael, Calif. (1537 Fourth St, San Rafael, CA 94901 USA)
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
ISBN-13: 9781598296181; 9781598296174
Subjects: Biomechanics; Continuum mechanics
Other titles: Synthesis digital library of engineering and computer science.
Description: This book is concerned with the study of continuum mechanics applied to biological systems, i.e., continuum biomechanics. This vast and exciting subject allows description of when a bone may fracture due to excessive loading, how blood behaves as both a solid and fluid, down to how cells respond to mechanical forces that lead to changes in their behavior, a process known as mechanotransduction. We have written for senior undergraduate students and first year graduate students in mechanical or biomedical engineering, but individuals working at biotechnology companies that deal in biomaterials or biomechanics should also find the information presented relevant and easily accessible.
Notes: Part of: Synthesis digital library of engineering and computer science.

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Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Tensor calculus; title: Indicial notation; title: Tensors; title: Tensor symmetry, principle values, and principal directions; title: Other useful tensor relationships; title: Kinematics of a continuum; title: Description of the motion of a continuum; title: Material vs. spatial description; title: Material derivative; title: Deformation-induced strain; title: Principal strains; title: Dilatation; title: Rate of deformation; title: Continuity equation (conservation of mass); title: Stress; title: Stress vector ("traction"); title: Stress tensor and its components; title: Principle of moment of momentum (proof of stress tensor symmetry); title: Principal stresses; title: Maximum shear stress; title: Equations of motion (conservation of linear momentum); title: Boundary condition for the stress tensor; title: Alternative stress definitions; title: Demonstrations; title: Problems; title: Elasticity; title: General elasticity; title: Experimental observations of infinitesimal linear elasticity; title: Linearly elastic solid; title: Isotropic linearly elastic solid; title: Material properties of elastic materials; title: ^; title: Equations of the infinitesimal theory of elasticity; title: Compatibility conditions for infinitesimal strain conditions; title: Classical problems in elasticity; title: Planar approximations (D simplification); title: Anisotropic linear elasticity; title: Problems; title: Fluids; title: Introduction to fluids; title: Hydrostatics; title: Newtonian viscous fluid; title: Meaning of l and m; title: Incompressible Newtonian fluid; title: Navier-Stokes equations; title: Boundary condition; title: Important definitions; title: Classical flows; title: Non-Newtonian fluids; title: Vorticity vector; title: Irrotational flow; title: Irrotational flow of an inviscid incompressible fluid; title: Blood and circulation; title: Basics and material properties of blood; title: Reynolds numbers for blood; title: Non-Newtonian behavior of blood; title: Casson equation; title: Blood rheology; title: Laminar flow of blood in a tube; title: Viscoelasticity; title: Definition of viscoelasticity; title: 1-D linear viscoelasticity (differential form based on mechanical circuit models); title: 1-D Linear Viscoelasticity (Integral Formulation); title: ^; title: ^^; title: 3-D Linear Viscoelasticity; title: Boundary value problems and the correspondence principle; title: Dynamic behavior of viscoelastic materials; title: Limiting cases of linear viscoelasticity are the Hookean solid and Newtonian viscous fluid; title: Poroelasticity and thermoelasticity; title: Poroelasticity; title: Thermoelasticity; title: Biphasic theory; title: Conservation of mass; title: Conservation of momentum; title: Constitutive equations; title: Summary and equations of motion; title: Confined compression; title: Unconfined compression.; title: ^^