zAME/BME 466/566
Biomechanical Engineering
Fall 2013
Lecture notes (pdf files)
Lecture 1: Introduction to biomechanics
Lecture 2: Statics and dynamics of rigid and jointed systems
Lecture 3: Fluids and solids, continuum concept, conservation equations
Lecture 4: Stress and tensors, definition of Cauchy stress
Lecture 6: The Hookean elastic solid
Lecture 7: Nonlinearity, viscoelasticity
Lecture 8: Alternative measures of stress, nonlinear elasticity theory
Lecture 9: Fitting models to data
Lecture 10: Strain-energy functions and Cauchy stresses
Lecture 11: Stresses in a fluid
Lecture 13: Navier-Stokes equations; Reynolds number; turbulence
Lecture 14: Entrance effects, stenoses, curved tubes, heart valves
Lecture 15: Blood flow in the circulatory system, pulse propagation
Lecture 16: Flow properties of blood, blood flow in microcirculation