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ISBN: 0128498978 0128044047 9780128498972 9780128044049 Year: 2017 Publisher: London San Diego
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"Nature's Machines: An Introduction to Organismal Biomechanics presents the fundamental principles of biomechanics of animals and plants in a concise, accessible way while maintaining necessary rigor. Frequently encountered, basic concepts such as stress and strain, Young's modulus, force coefficients, viscosity, and Reynolds number are introduced in early chapters in a format as self-contained as possible, making them quickly available for learning and as a refresher. More sophisticated, integrative concepts such as viscoelasticity, properties of hydrostats, or mechanics of walking and running are covered in the later chapters, where they draw on information from multiple earlier sections of the book. Animal and plant biomechanics is now a common research area widely acknowledged by organismal biologists to have broad relevance. Most of the day-to-day activities of an animal involve mechanical processes, and to the extent that organisms are shaped by adaptive evolution, many of those adaptations are constrained and channelized by mechanical properties; the similarity in body shape of a porpoise and a tuna is no coincidence. Nonspecialists may feel that they have an intuitive understanding of many of the mechanical processes that affect animals and plants, but careful biomechanical analyses often yield counterintuitive results. For example, soft, squishy kelp may be better at withstanding pounding waves during storms than hard-shelled mollusks; really small swimmers might benefit from being spherical rather than streamlined; our bones can operate without breaking for decades, whereas steel surgical implants exhibit fatigue failures in a few months if not fully supported by bone. Making sense of these unexpected observations requires an understanding of fundamental biomechanical principles, and this short introduction provides just this needed information. Key features: Provides an introductory presentation of the everyday mechanical challenges faced by animals and plants; Offers biologists or engineers a background in biomechanics, whether to better understand the research literature or to explore the possibility of using biomechanics approaches in their own work; Suitable for use as required reading for advanced undergraduate or graduate student courses or seminars in biomechanics or supplemental reading in other science and engineering courses."--
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Year: 2020 Publisher: London : IntechOpen,
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This book presents an understanding of biomechanics through chapters analyzing human behavior in sport from a medical perspective. It offers a comprehensive range of principles, methods, techniques, and tools to provide the reader with clear knowledge of the impact of biomechanic processes. The text considers physical, mechanical, and biomechanical aspects and is illustrated by different key application domains such as sports performance, sports science, ergonomy science, gait and human posture, and musculoskeletal disorders in medicine. The first three chapters provide useful tools for measuring, generating, simulating, and processing in biomechanics with the clinical and experimental applications in medicine. The last section describes the application of biomechanics in sport performance. Engineers, researchers, and students from biomedical engineering and health sciences, as well as industrial professionals, can profit from this compendium of knowledge on biomechanics applied to the human body.
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Year: 1981 Publisher: Liège : Université de Liège. Faculté de Médecine. Institut supérieur d'éducation physique,
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ISBN: 1316732355 1316730425 1316681637 Year: 2018 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,
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Thoroughly revised and updated for the second edition, this comprehensive textbook integrates basic and advanced concepts of mechanics with numerical methods and biomedical applications. Coverage is expanded to include a complete introduction to vector and tensor calculus, and new or fully updated chapters on biological materials and continuum mechanics, motion, deformation and rotation, and constitutive modelling of solids and fluids. Topics such as kinematics, equilibrium, and stresses and strains are also included, as well as the mechanical behaviour of fibres and the analysis of one-dimensional continuous elastic media. Numerical solution procedures based on the Finite Element Method are presented, with accompanying MATLAB-based software and dozens of new biomedical engineering examples and exercises allowing readers to practise and improve their skills. Solutions for instructors are also available online. This is the definitive guide for both undergraduate and graduate students taking courses in biomechanics.
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Year: 2007 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,
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Year: 1978 Publisher: Liège : Université de Liège. Faculté de Médecine. Institut supérieur d'éducation physique,
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Year: 1968 Publisher: Bruxelles: [éditeur inconnu],
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ISBN: 0691135509 9780691135502 Year: 2012 Publisher: Princeton: Princeton university press,
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ISBN: 1107163722 9781107163720 Year: 2017 Publisher: Cambridge: Cambridge university press,
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"An important aspect of mechanics is experimental work to determine material properties and to validate models. The application field ranges from microscopic structures at the level of cells to larger organs like the heart"--
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Year: 2020 Publisher: London : IntechOpen,
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This book presents an understanding of biomechanics through chapters analyzing human behavior in sport from a medical perspective. It offers a comprehensive range of principles, methods, techniques, and tools to provide the reader with clear knowledge of the impact of biomechanic processes. The text considers physical, mechanical, and biomechanical aspects and is illustrated by different key application domains such as sports performance, sports science, ergonomy science, gait and human posture, and musculoskeletal disorders in medicine. The first three chapters provide useful tools for measuring, generating, simulating, and processing in biomechanics with the clinical and experimental applications in medicine. The last section describes the application of biomechanics in sport performance. Engineers, researchers, and students from biomedical engineering and health sciences, as well as industrial professionals, can profit from this compendium of knowledge on biomechanics applied to the human body.
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