This book covers the fundamentals of biomechanics. Topics include bio solids, biofluids, stress, balance and equilibrium. Students are encouraged to contextualize principles and exercises within a “big picture” of biomechanics. This is an ideal book for undergraduate students with interests in biomedical engineering.
Author(s): Jay D. Humphrey, Sherry L. O’Rourke (auth.)
Edition: 2
Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York
Year: 2015
Language: English
Pages: XXVI, 692
Tags: Human Physiology; Biomedical Engineering; Theoretical and Applied Mechanics; Biochemical Engineering
Front Matter....Pages i-xxvi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction....Pages 3-44
Front Matter....Pages 45-45
Stress, Strain, and Constitutive Relations....Pages 47-107
Equilibrium, Universal Solutions, and Inflation....Pages 109-162
Extension and Torsion....Pages 163-212
Beam Bending and Column Buckling....Pages 213-288
Some Nonlinear Problems....Pages 289-350
Front Matter....Pages 351-351
Stress, Motion, and Constitutive Relations....Pages 353-404
Fundamental Balance Relations....Pages 405-454
Some Exact Solutions....Pages 455-523
Control Volume and Semi-empirical Methods....Pages 525-597
Front Matter....Pages 599-599
Coupled Solid–Fluid Problems....Pages 601-666
Epilogue....Pages 667-673
Back Matter....Pages 675-692