Biomechanics
Subtitle: concepts and computation
By: by Cees Oomens, Marcel Brekelmans, Frank Baaijens
Contributors: Brekelmans, Marcel; Baaijens, Franciscus Petrus Thomas
Series: Cambridge texts in biomedical engineering; Cambridge texts in biomedical engineering
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780521172967
Subjects: Biomedical engineering; Human mechanics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-330) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Vector calculus; title: 2. The concepts of force and moment; title: 3. Static equilibrium; title: 4. The mechanical behaviour of fibres; title: 5. Fibres: time dependent behaviour; title: 6. Analysis of a one-dimensional continuous elastic medium; title: 7. Biological materials and continuum mechanics; title: 8. Stress in three-dimensional continuous media; title: 9. Motion: the time as an extra dimension; title: 10. Deformation and rotation, deformation rate and spin; title: 11. Local balance of mass, momentum and energy; title: 12. Constitutive modelling of solids and fluids; title: 13. Solution strategies for solid and fluid mechanics problems; title: 14. Solution of the one-dimensional diffusion equation by means of the finite element method; title: 15. Solution of the one-dimensional convection-diffusion equation by means of the finite element method; title: 16. Solution of the three-dimensional convection-diffusion equation by means of the finite element method; title: 17. Shape functions and numerical integration; title: 18. Infinitesimal strain elasticity problems.