Frontiers in Biomechanics

ISBN-13: 9781461293378 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 395 str.

G. W. Schmid-Sch Nbein; S. L. -Y Woo; B. W. Zweifach

Opis

Biomechanics is concerned with the response of living matter to forces, and its study has taken long strides in recent years. In the past two decades, biomechanics has brought improved understanding of normal and patho physiology of organisms at molecular, cellular, and organ levels; it has helped developing medical diagnostic and treatment procedures; it has guided the design and manufacturing of prosthesis and instruments; it has suggested the means for improving human performance in the workplace, sports, and space; it has made us understand trauma in war and in peace. Looking toward the future, we see many more areas of possible development such as: reduction in heart diseases and atherosclerosis improved vascular assist and replacement devices, including a permanent artifical heart enhanced oxygen transport in the lung understanding and control of growth and changes mechanics of neuromuscular control and robotics prevention of joint degeneration permanent total joint replacements prevention of low back pain workplace designs to enhance productivity ambulation systems for the handicapped fully implantable hearing aids improved understanding of the mechanisms for permanent disability injuries identification of factors such as alcohol use and disease influence on impact tolerance improved cellular bioreactor designs mechanics of DNA and its application in biotechnology. * Obviously, the attainment of these prospects will greatly improve the quality of human life and reduce the costs of living. * This list is from a report by the U. S. National Committee on Biomechanics, April, 1985.

Spis treści

I Molecules and Cells.- 1. Membrane Mechanics and Cell Adhesion.- 2. New Birth To Runaway Solitons.- 3. Leukocyte Protopodia.- II Biological Tissues.- 4. Biomechanics of Smooth Muscle.- 5. Smooth Muscle Rheology: In Search of a Specimen.- 6. The Phenomenology of the Heart Muscle.- 7. Determination of Material Properties of Biological Tissues: Pericardium.- 8.In-Vivo Measurement of Regional Strains in Myocardium.- 9. Residual Stress in Arteries.- 10. On the Structural Origin of the Quasilinear Viscoelastic Behavior of Tissues.- 11. Fibrous Skin Mechanics: Superstructure and New Problems.- 12. Mechanism of Osmosis: Hulett’s Versus Lewis’ View of Altered Solvent in Solution.- III Orthopedics.- 13. A Finite Deformation Theory for Nonlinearly Permeable Soft Hydrated Biological Tissues.- 14. Biomechanics of Tendons and Ligaments.- 15. Bone Mechanics: From Tissue Mechanical Properties to an Assessment of Structural Behavior.- 16. Biomechanics of the Lumbar Spine.- 17. Biomechanics of the Human Gait.- 18. Biomechanics of Bone—Implant Interactions.- 19. Mechanics of Healing Soft Tissue Wounds.- IV Circulation.- 20. Biomechanics of the Microcirculation.- 21. Biomechanics of Capillary Blood Flow.- 22. The Static Versus the Dynamic State of the Microvasculature.- 23. Vascular Dynamics and the Endothelium.- 24. Self-excited Oscillation of a Collapsible Tube Conveying Fluid.- V The Lung.- 25. Microvascular Hematocrit of the Lung.- 26. Pulmonary Blood Flow in the Cat: Correlation Between Theory and Experiment.- 27. Respiratory Dynamics—Computer Simulation.