BIOEN 5201 - Introduction to Biomechanics - Lecture Notes


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Lectures from Fall '05

Last Updated 12/8/06

DATE
"HANDOUTS"
(REQUIRED - KNOW THIS STUFF)

SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL (OPTIONAL READING TO SUPPLEMENT LECTURE NOTES)

8/24/06
  AJM Spencer, "Continuum Mechanics", Chapter 2 - Index Notation and Coordinate Transformation

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

8/29/06
8/31/06
9/5/06 FP Beer and ER Johnson, JR, "Vector Mechanics for Engineers:  Statics and Dynamics", Ch. 4.1-4.5; Ch. 4.8  
9/7/06 (please see enhanced explanation of coordinate transformation example on slide 5)   
9/12/06 AJM Spencer, "Continuum Mechanics", Chapter 6.1-6.3 - Motions and Deformations

RM Brannon, "Kinematics:  The Mathematics of Deformation"

9/14/06 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.
9/19/06   Y-C Fung, A First Course in Continuum Mechanics,  Ch. 5.1-5.3
9/21/06   RM Brannon, "Define Your Strain!"
9/26/06 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

9/28/06
10/3/06   Y-C Fung, Biomechanics, Ch. 7.2-7.3
10/5/06
(FALL BREAK)
   
10/10/06 
10/12/06
10/17/06
(EXAM1)
   
10/19/06    
10/24/06 Divergence Theorem (Marsden and Tromba, "Vector Analysis")
10/26/06
10/31/06    
11/2/06 Anisotropic Linearized Elasticity  
11/7/06
11/9/06
11/14/06    
11/16/06    
11/21/06  

Material Derivative

11/23/06
(THANKSGIVING)
11/28/06 Equations of Motion, Continuity and Navier-Stokes Equations in Rectangular and Curvilinear Coordinates Derivation of Navier-Stokes Equations
11/30/06    
12/5/06
 12/7/06

 

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