Biomechanics

Cees Oomens is Associate Professor in Biomechanics and Continuum Mechanics at the Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands. He has lectured on many different courses ranging from basic courses in continuum mechanics at a Bachelor level, to courses on mechanical properties of materials and advanced courses in computational modelling at Masters and post graduate level. His current research focuses on damage and adaptation of soft biological tissues, with emphasis on skeletal muscle tissue and skin. Marcel Brekelmans is Associate Professor in Continuum Mechanics at the Eindhoven University of Technology. Since 1998 he has also lectured in the Biomedical Engineering Faculty at the University; here his teaching addresses continuum mechanics, basic level and numerical analysis. He has published a considerable number of papers in well-known journals, and his research interests in continuum mechanics include the modelling of history-dependent material behaviour (plasticity, damage and fracture) in forming processes. Frank Baaijens is Full Professor in Soft Tissue Biomechanics & Tissue Engineering at the Eindhoven University of Technology, where he has also been a part-time Professor in the Polymer Group of the Division of Computational and Experimental Mechanics since 1990. He is currently Scientific Director of the national research program on BioMedical Materials (BMM), and his research focuses on soft tissue biomechanics and tissue engineering.

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 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; 13. Solution strategies for solid and fluid mechanics problems; 14. Numerical solution of one-dimensional diffusion equation; 15. The one-dimensional convection-diffusion equation; 16. The three-dimensional convection-diffusion equation; 17. Shape functions and numerical integration; 18. Infinitesimal strain elasticity problems; References; Index.