BIOEN 5201 - Introduction to Biomechanics - Lecture Notes


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Lectures from Fall '04

Last Updated 12/8/05

DATE
"HANDOUTS"
(REQUIRED - KNOW THIS STUFF)

SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL (OPTIONAL READING TO SUPPLEMENT LECTURE NOTES)

8/25/05
  AJM Spencer, "Continuum Mechanics", Chapter 2 - Index Notation and Coordinate Transformation

RM Brannon, "Elementary and Intermediate Vector and Tensor Analysis"

8/30/05
9/1/05
9/6/05 FP Beer and ER Johnson, JR, "Vector Mechanics for Engineers:  Statics and Dynamics", Ch. 4.1-4.5; Ch. 4.8  
9/8/05 (please see enhanced explanation of coordinate transformation example on slide 5)   
9/13/05 E.S. Grood, W.J. Suntay, "A joint coordinate system for the clinical description of three-dimensional motions:  Application to the knee."  ASME Journal of Biomechanical Engineering 105:136-144, 1983. AJM Spencer, "Continuum Mechanics", Chapter 6.1-6.3 - Motions and Deformations

RM Brannon, "Kinematics:  The Mathematics of Deformation"

9/15/05
9/20/05   Y-C Fung, A First Course in Continuum Mechanics,  Ch. 5.1-5.3
9/22/05   RM Brannon, "Define Your Strain!"
9/27/05 AJM Spencer, "Continuum Mechanics", Chapter 5 - Stress

Y-C Fung, A First Course in Continuum Mechanics,  Ch. 3.1-3.4

Y-C Fung, Biomechanics, Ch. 2.1-2.2

9/29/05
10/4/05   Y-C Fung, Biomechanics, Ch. 7.2-7.3
10/6/05
(FALL BREAK)
   
10/11/05 
10/13/05
10/18/05
(EXAM1)
   
10/20/05 Divergence Theorem (Marsden and Tromba, "Vector Analysis")  
10/25/05
10/27/05
11/1/05    
11/3/05 Anisotropic Linearized Elasticity  
11/8/05
11/10/05
11/15/05    
11/17/05    
11/22/05  

Material Derivative

11/24/05
(THANKSGIVING)
11/29/05 Equations of Motion, Continuity and Navier-Stokes Equations in Rectangular and Curvilinear Coordinates Derivation of Navier-Stokes Equations
12/1/05    
12/6/05
 12/8/05

 

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