BIOEN 5201 - Introduction to Biomechanics - Syllabus
Last Updated 10/10/06
Week |
DATE |
SUBJECT |
READING - OPTIONAL (Fung1= "A First Course...", Fung2="Biomechanics") |
HOMEWORK |
LABS |
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1 |
8/24/06 |
Thursday |
Introduction; Biomechanics Research Methodology |
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2 |
8/29/06 |
Tuesday |
Index and Direct Notation |
Syllabus; Spencer Ch. 2-3; Fung1 Ch. 2.3-2.4; Fung2 7.2-7.3 |
Homework #1 assigned |
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2 |
8/31/06 |
Thursday |
Index and Direct notation (cont'd); Statics |
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3 |
9/5/06 |
Tuesday |
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3 |
9/7/06 |
Thursday |
Coordinate Transformation; Tensors
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Spencer 3.2, 3.4 |
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4 |
9/12/06 |
Tuesday |
Statics; Free Body Diagrams |
Fung1 Ch. 1.11 |
Homework #1 Due; Homework #2 assigned |
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4 |
9/14/06 |
Thursday |
Statics (cont'd) |
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5 |
9/19/06 |
Tuesday |
Coordinate Transformation Revisited; Rigid Body Kinematics; |
Spencer Ch. 6.1-6.3 |
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9/20/06 |
Wednesday |
Lab 1
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5 |
9/21/06 |
Thursday |
Deformation Map; Homogeneous Deformations; Rigid Deformations |
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Lab 1
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6 |
9/26/06 |
Tuesday |
Deformation Gradient; Polar Decomposition; Jacobian; |
Spencer Ch. 2.5;
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6 |
9/28/06 |
Thursday |
Strain Tensors |
Homework #2 due; Homework #3 assigned |
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7 |
10/3/06 |
Tuesday |
Strain Tensors (cont'd) |
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Lab 1 Report Due |
7 |
10/5/06 |
Thursday |
FALL BREAK - NO CLASS |
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8 |
10/10/06 |
Tuesday |
Stress Tensor; Principal Stresses; Plane Stress |
Spencer Ch. 5; Fung2 Ch. 2.1-2.2; Fung1 3.1-3.3; Fung1 Ch. 4 |
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8 |
10/12/06 |
Thursday |
Review |
Spencer Ch. 5.6-5.7; Spencer Ch. 7.1-7.7 and Fung1 Ch. 3.1-3.4 |
Homework #3 due |
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9 |
10/17/06 |
Tuesday |
EXAM #1 |
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| 9 | 10/18/06 | Wednesday |
Lab 2
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9 |
10/19/06 |
Thursday |
Review EXAM 1 solutions; Deviatoric and Dilational Stress; Stress Invariants; |
Fung1 Ch. 4 |
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Lab 2
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10 |
10/24/06 |
Tuesday |
Conservation Laws; The Constitutive Equation |
Spencer, Fung1 10.6 |
Homework #4 assigned |
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10 |
10/26/06 |
Thursday |
Objectivity; Material Symmetry; Linearized Elasticity |
Fung1 Ch. 8; Spencer Ch. 8.2, 8.3 |
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11 |
10/31/06 |
Tuesday |
Linearized Elasticity (cont'd); |
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11 |
11/2/06 |
Thursday |
Bone Structure and Composition; Bone Cells; Material Behavior of Bone |
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Lab 2 Report Due |
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12 |
11/7/06 |
Tuesday |
Viscoelasticity - Discrete Models |
Homework #4 due;
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| 12 |
11/8/06 |
Wednesday |
Lab 3
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12 |
11/9/06 |
Thursday |
Viscoelasticity - Discrete Models (cont'd); Harmonic Oscillations |
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Lab 3
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13 |
11/14/06 |
Tuesday |
Ligaments and Tendons |
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13 |
11/16/06 |
Thursday |
Field Equations of Fluid Mechanics; Conservation of Mass, Eulerian; Continuity Equation; Newtonian Fluids |
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Homework #5 due |
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14 |
11/21/06 |
Tuesday |
Field Equations of Fluid Mechanics (cont'd); |
Fung 1 Ch 11; Spencer Ch. 6.10; Fung2,2.6-2.7 |
Lab 3 Report Due |
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14 |
11/23/06 |
Thursday |
THANKSGIVING - NO CLASS |
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15 |
11/28/06 |
Tuesday |
Examples in Fluid Mechanics |
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Homework #6 assigned |
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15 |
11/30/06 |
Thursday |
Constitutive Behavior of Biofluids |
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16 |
12/5/06 |
Tuesday |
Flow Properties of Blood |
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16 |
12/7/06 |
Thursday |
Review |
Homework #6 due |
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| Finals Week |
12/15/06 |
Friday |
EXAM #2 (10:30 - 12:30) | |||