Biomechanics : concepts and computation / Cees Oomens, Marcel Brekelmans, Frank Baaijens.
This quantitative approach integrates the basic concepts of mechanics and computational modelling techniques for undergraduate biomedical engineering students.
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Cambridge ; New York :
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2009.
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| Series: | Cambridge texts in biomedical engineering.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; About the cover; Preface; 1 Vector calculus; 2 The concepts of force and moment; 3 Static equilibrium; 4 The mechanical behaviour of fibres; 5 Fibres: time-dependent behaviour; 6 Analysis of a one-dimensional continuous elastic medium; 7 Biological materials and continuum mechanics; 8 Stress in three-dimensional continuous media; 9 Motion: the time as an extra dimension; 10 Deformation and rotation, deformation rate and spin; 11 Local balance of mass, momentum and energy; 12 Constitutive modelling of solids and fluids.