(Ebook) Biomechanics: Concepts and Computation by Cees Oomens, Marcel Brekelmans, Sandra Loerakker, Frank Baaijens ISBN 9781107163720, 1107163722

(Ebook) Biomechanics: Concepts and Computation by Cees Oomens, Marcel Brekelmans, Sandra Loerakker, Frank Baaijens ISBN 9781107163720, 1107163722

Thoroughly revised and updated for the second edition, this comprehensive textbookintegrates basic and advanced concepts of mechanics with numerical methods andbiomedical applications. Coverage is expanded to include a complete introduction tovector and tensor calculus, and new or fully updated chapters on biological materials andcontinuum mechanics, motion, deformation and rotation, and the constitutive modellingof solids and fluids. Topics such as kinematics, equilibrium, and stresses and strains arealso included, as well as the mechanical behaviour of fibres and the analysis ofone-dimensional continuous elastic media. Numerical solution procedures based on thefinite element method are presented, with accompanying MATLAB-based software anddozens of new biomedical engineering examples and exercises allowing readers topractise and improve their skills. Solutions for instructors are also available online. This isthe definitive guide for both undergraduate and graduate students taking courses inbiomechanics.