London: Academic Press, Elsevier, 2013. — 288 p. — ISBN10: 0124051901 Simulate realistic human motion in a virtual world with an optimization-based approach to motion prediction. With this approach, motion is governed by human performance measures, such as speed and energy, which act as objective functions to be optimized. Constraints on joint torques and angles are imposed...
Champaign: Human Kinetics, 2004. — 378 p. The Biophysical Foundations of Human Movement, Second Edition, is now fully updated with information and enhanced learning aids that increase the readability and value of the text. Like its predecessor, the new edition provides a balanced introduction to each of the major biophysical subdisciplines of kinesiology: anatomy, biomechanics,...
CRC Press, 2018. - 189 p. This book addresses the need of practitioners and researchers in the biomedical sciences to better understand the principles of biomechanics of soft tissue. This book will thoroughly incorporate a number of applications and examples of biomechanics both from an engineering and clinical standpoint. It starts with the fundamental of soft tissues biology...
N.-Y.: Springer, 2012. - 370 p. This book collects the state-of-art and new trends in image analysis and biomechanics. It covers a wide field of scientific and cultural topics, ranging from remodeling of bone tissue under the mechanical stimulus up to optimizing the performance of sports equipment, through the patient-specific modeling in orthopedics, microtomography and its...
Springer International Publishing AG, 2018. — 384 p. — (Advanced Structured Materials 91). — ISBN: 331978532X. This book presents a comprehensive and unifying approach to analytical identification of material properties of biological materials. Focusing on depth-sensing indentation testing, pipette aspiration testing, and torsion of soft tissues, it discusses the following...
Morgan and Claypool Publishers, 2008. - 220 p. This book is concerned with the study of continuum mechanics applied to biological systems, i.e., continuum biomechanics. This vast and exciting subject allows description of when a bone may fracture due to excessive loading, how blood behaves as both a solid and fluid, down to how cells respond to mechanical forces that lead to...
Taylor & Francis, 1999. — 276 p. A book about the biomechanics of sports, how to improve performance and avoid injury. Biomechanical analysis and optimisation of sports techniques. Aspects of biomechanical analysis of sports performance. Biomechanical optimisation of sports techniques. Mathematical models of sports motions. Feedback and communication of model results....
Wrocław: Oficyna Wydawnicza Politechniki Wrocławskiej, 1997. — 334 s. — ISBN: 83-7085-240-8 Biomechanika jest nauką o ruchu oraz związanych z nim obciążeniach i ich skutkach, mechanizmach ruch len wywołujących, ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem człowieka i zwierząt. Nauka ta opiera swoje podstawy na mechanice z jednej, biologii i medycynie natomiast - z drugiej strony. W niniejszej...
Berlin: Springer, 2011. - 297 p. Damage to the central nervous system resulting from pathological mechanical loading can occur as a result of trauma or disease. Such injuries lead to significant disability and mortality. The peripheral nervous system, while also subject to injury from trauma and disease, also transduces physiological loading to give rise to sensation, and...
2nd ed. — Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 622 p. — ISBN: 0521130697. Exploring the mechanical features of biological cells, including their architecture and stability, this textbook is a pedagogical introduction to the interdisciplinary fields of cell mechanics and soft matter physics from both experimental and theoretical perspectives. This second edition has been greatly...
Wydanie II, poprawione. — Wrocław: Wydawnictwo BK, 2003. — 238 s. — ISBN: 83-910251-3-6. Katedra Biomechaniki Akademia Wychowania Fizycznego we Wrocławiu. Biomechanika jest nauką interdyscyplinarną. Czytelnik, zapoznając się z treścią książki spostrzeże, że czasami trudno znaleźć granice między tym, co można sobie wyobrazić jako biomechanikę: naukę o biologicznym podłożu i...
Springer, 2015. — 220 + 292 p. Giovanni Alfonso Borelli’s work On the Movement of Animals is the founding text of seventeenth century biomechanics originally published in Italian in 1667, then translated into Latin in 1686. Now it has been translated into English, making the text accessible to a wide readership. The first volume, On the Force of Percussion , provides an...
Berlin: Springer, 1988. — 88 p. This is another classic contribution by Braune and Fischer to the field of biomechanics. The pendulum method was employed to ascertain ac curately the moments and radii of inertia of the human body and its different parts about all axes - transverse, oblique or longitudinal. This elegant method is described in detail, together with the results....
Cambridge University Press, 2019. — 396 p. — ISBN: 978-1-107-13786-8. Richly illustrated throughout with actual tissue images, this innovative book shows that the soft-hard tissue junction is best understood in a biomechanical context. The authors describe their pioneering experimental methods, providing an essential structure-function framework for computational modeling, and...
Boston: The MIT Press, 2013. - 290 p. This book proposes a transdisciplinary approach to investigating human motor control that synthesizes musculoskeletal biomechanics and neural control. The authors argue that this integrated approach -- which uses the framework of robotics to understand sensorimotor control problems -- offers a more complete and accurate description than...
Academic Press, 2018. — 439 p. — ISBN: 978-0-12-811718-7. This book covers new and exciting modeling methods to help bioengineers tackle problems for which the Finite Element Method is not appropriate. The book covers a wide range of important subjects in the field of numerical methods applied to biomechanics, including bone biomechanics, tissue and cell mechanics, 3D printing,...
Oklahoma City, 1975. — 171 p. Knowledge of the anthropometric parameters of the human body is essential for understanding of human kinetics and particularly for the design and testing of impact protective systems. Considerable information is available on the size, weight and center of mass of the body and its segments. This report supplements existing information with data...
Champaign: Human Kinetics, 2008. - 323 p. Unlike previous biomechanics texts that have taken a mechanical concept and identified activities in which the concept is implicated, Biomechanical Analysis of Fundamental Human Movements takes a contrary approach by focusing on the activities and then identifying the biomechanical concepts that best facilitate understanding of those...
Springer, 2014. — 90 p. — (Springer Briefs in Physics). — ISBN: 978-3-642-44952-9, 978-3-642-44951-2. "The Application of Biofluid Mechanics: Boundary Effects on Phoretic Motions of Colloidal Spheres" focuses on the phoretic motion behavior of various micron- to nanometer-size particles. The content of this book is divided into two parts: one on the concentration...
ISTE Ltd, Wiley, 2014. — 145 p. — (Focus Series). — ISBN: 978-1-84821-610-5. After a quick survey of the famous pioneers of human movement analysis and the actual needs in different domains, this book presents the main types of systems available on the market (with the pros and cons), and then details the most widely used: the optoelectronic systems using passive markers. The...
Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, 2016. – 188 p. – ISBN10: 3319391577 This book provides an in-depth review of state-of-the-art orthopaedic techniques and basic mechanical operations (drilling, boring, cutting, grinding/milling) involved in present day orthopaedic surgery. Casting a light on exploratory hybrid operations, as well as non-conventional techniques...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. - 536 p. Motor control has established itself as an area of scientific research characterized by a multi-disciplinary approach. Scientists working in the area of control of voluntary movements come from different backgrounds including but not limited to physiology, physics, psychology, mathematics, neurology, physical therapy, computer...
Hoboken: Wiley, 2014. - 167 p. The topic of this book is the modeling of data uncertainty and knowledge for a health engineering problem such as the biomechanics of the musculoskeletal system. This is the first book on this subject. It begins with the state of the art in related topics such as data uncertainty, knowledge modeling, and the biomechanics of the musculoskeletal...
2nd Edition. — CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017. — 677 p. — ISBN13: 978-1-138-03360-3. This substantially revised text represents a broader based biological engineering title. It includes medicine and other applications that are desired in curricula supported by the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers, as well as many bioengineering departments in...
L.: Springer, 2015. - 287 p. Presenting a state-of-the-art overview of theoretical and computational models that link characteristic biomechanical phenomena, this book provides guidelines and examples for creating multiscale models in representative systems and organisms. It develops the reader's understanding of and intuition for multiscale phenomena in biomechanics and...
North Atlantic Books, 2011. — 128 p. — ISBN: 1556439709. In The Body in Motion, author Theodore Dimon confronts a simple yet crucial task: to make sense of our amazing design. This comprehensive guide demonstrates the functions and evolution of specific body systems, explaining how they cooperate to form an upright, intelligent, tool-making marvel, capable of great...
Academic Press, 2019. — 420 p. — ISBN: 978-0-12-816390-0. This book covers a wide range of recent development and advances in the fields of biomechanics and tissue regeneration. It includes computational simulation, soft tissues, microfluidics, the cardiovascular system, experimental methods in biomechanics, mechanobiology and tissue regeneration. The state-of-the-art, theories...
New York: Springer, 2014. - 128 p. One of the greatest challenges facing the computational engineering community is to extend the success of computational mechanics to fields outside traditional engineering, in particular to biology, the biomedical sciences and medicine. The Computational Biomechanics for Medicine series provides an opportunity for specialists in computational...
Human kinetics. 2008. — 563 p. Drawing on the disciplines of neurophysiology and physics, Neuromechanics of Human Movement, Fourth Edition, explores how the nervous system controls the actions of muscles to produce human motion in relation to biomechanical principles. This contemporary approach is much different from the traditional approach, which focuses solely on mechanics...
Wiley, 2012. — 376 p. An appealing and engaging introduction to Continuum Mechanics in Biosciences. This book presents the elements of Continuum Mechanics to people interested in applications to biological systems. It is divided into two parts, the first of which introduces the basic concepts within a strictly one-dimensional spatial context. This policy has been adopted so as...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 545 p. — ISBN13: 978-0-511-27360-5 (eBook), ISBN13: 978-0-521-84112-2 (hardback). Introductory Biomechanics is a new, integrated text written specifically for engineering students. It provides a broad overview of this important branch of the rapidly growing field of bioengineering. A wide selection of topics is presented, ranging from the...
2nd Edition. — Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2019. — 458 p. — ISBN: 978-1284102335. The second edition of Biomechanics: A Case-Based Approach emphasizes the comprehension, retention, and application of the core concepts of biomechanics through the use of problem-based learning strategies. The author utilizes a student-centered approach by deploying a conversational writing style,...
2nd Edition. — Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2019. — 458 p. — ISBN: 978-1284102335. The second edition of Biomechanics: A Case-Based Approach emphasizes the comprehension, retention, and application of the core concepts of biomechanics through the use of problem-based learning strategies. The author utilizes a student-centered approach by deploying a conversational writing style,...
CRC Press, 2017. — 431 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4987-4282-5. This book is a reference manual where information and data from a large number of sources, focussing on injuries related to military events, has been critically reviewed and discussed. The book covers the cause and prevention of impact injuries to all the major body regions, while topics such as the historical background of...
Springer, 1984. — 413 p. — ISBN: 978-0387908670 This book is a continuation ofmy Biomechanics.The first volume deals with the mechanical properties of living tissues. The present volume deals with the mechanics ofcirculation. A third volume willdeal with respiration, fluid balance, locomotion, growth, and strength. This volume is called Bio dynamics in order to distinguish it...
New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2019. — 184 p. The research presented in the opening chapter of A Closer Look at Biomechanics demonstrates that the use of finite element modeling to simulate static and dynamic behavior in an anterior cervical plate design shows that load transmission is superior when the plate works dynamically. The second chapter continues to examine the...
Academic Press, 2018. — 420 p. — ISBN: 978-0-12-812851-0. This book encompasses the basics of spine biomechanics, spinal tissues, spinal disorders and treatment methods. Organized into four parts, the first chapters explore the functional anatomy of the spine, with special emphasis on aspects which are biomechanically relevant and quite often neglected in clinical literature....
New York: Springer, 2002. - 503 p. This collection of contributions on the subject of the neural mechanisms of sensorimotor control resulted from a conference held in Cairns, Australia, September 3-6, 2001. While the three of us were attending the International Union of Physiological Sciences (IUPS) Congress in St Petersburg, Russia, in 1997, we discussed the implications of...
ISTE Press - Elsevier, 2018. — 562 p. — ISBN: 978-1-78548-208-3. Multiscale Biomechanics provides new insights on multiscale static and dynamic behavior of both soft and hard biological tissues, including bone, the intervertebral disk, biological membranes and tendons. The physiological aspects of bones and biological membranes are introduced, along with micromechanical models...
Academic Press, 2018. — 648 p. — ISBN: 978-0-12-812594-6. This book provides an appropriate methodology to detect and measure diseases and injuries relating to human kinematics and kinetics. It features mathematical models that, when applied to engineering principles and techniques in the medical field, can be used in assistive devices that work with bodily signals. The use of...
L.: Riutledge, 2013. - 426 p. The Routledge Handbook of Motor Control and Motor Learning is the first book to offer a comprehensive survey of neurophysiological, behavioural and biomechanical aspects of motor function. Adopting an integrative approach, it examines the full range of key topics in contemporary human movement studies, explaining motor behaviour in depth from the...
InTech, 2012. — 221 p. — ISBN: 9535106906, 9789535106906. This book covers many aspects of Injury and Skeletal Biomechanics. As the title represents, the aspects of force, motion, kinetics, kinematics, deformation, stress and strain are examined in a range of topics such as human muscles and skeleton, gait, injury and risk assessment under given situations. Topics range from...
Apple Academic Press, 2014. — 618 p. — (Advances in Bioengineering Research and Applications, Volume 2) — ISBN: 9781926895840 Artificial organs are one of the world's greatest advancements in medicine. This book covers cardiopulmonary bypass surgery; artificial hearts and pacemakers; stenting and ballooning; artificial lungs, kidneys, and knees, dental protheses; and more. It...
New York: Taylor & Francis, 2006. - 401 p. Instant Notes Sport and Exercise Biomechanics provides a comprehensive overview of the key concepts in exercise and sport biomechanics. The kinematics of motion are reviewed in detail, outlining the physics of motion. Mechanical characteristics of motion, the mechanisms of injury, and the analysis of the sport technique provides a...
7th edition. — New York: McGraw-Hill, 2014. — 556 p. The seventh edition of Basic Biomechanics has been significantly updated from the previous edition. The approach taken remains an integrated balance of qualitative and quantitative examples, applications, and problems designed to illustrate the principles discussed. This edition also retains the important sensitivity to the...
McGraw-Hill, 2011. — 538 p. — ISBN: 0073376442. Basic Biomechanics provides balanced coverage of anatomical structure, biomechanics, and applications, as recommended by the Biomechanics Academy of AAHPERD. Numerous applications from sport, ergonomics, and daily living-both qualitative and quantitative — help demonstrate the relevance of biomechanical principles beyond elite...
N.-Y.: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2014. - 506 p. Help your students understand the full continuum of human movement potential with the Fourth Edition of this rigorous-yet understandable-introductory text on the market. Focusing on the quantitative nature of biomechanics, Biomechanical Basis of Movement, Fourth Edition integrates current literature, meaningful numerical...
3nd edition. — Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2008. — 491 p. Integrating basic anatomy, physics, calculus, and physiology, this fundamental text offers you a solid introduction to the study of biomechanics. By focusing on movement patterns of muscle groups rather than individual muscles, this text provides you with a holistic understanding of human movement. Chapters are...
Junfermannsche Verlags, 2003. — 187 S. — ISBN10: 3873871130. Die meisten erwachsenen Menschen besitzen nur eine sehr geringe Fähigkeit, Bewegungen ihres Körpers sinnlich wahrzunehmen und folglich eine geringe Fähigkeit, ihren Körper zu bewegen und zu kontrollieren. Die sensomotorischen Funktionen im Innersten des menschlichen Zentralnervensystems sind bei dem typischen...
Tokyo: Springer, 1994. — 421 p. Clinical biomechanics is a rapidly changing field with an increasingly wide appeal. While the core subjects of biomechanics remain the behavior of bones, joints, ligaments, and muscles, this book focuses on more clinical aspects such as artificial joints, tissue transplantations, and the effects of disease on biomechanical properties. Also...
Amsterdam: Springer, 2013. - 405 p. This book contains a collection of papers that were presented at the IUTAM Symposium on “Computer Models in Biomechanics: From Nano to Macro” held at Stanford University, California, USA, from August 29 to September 2, 2011. It contains state-of-the-art papers on: - Protein and Cell Mechanics: coarse-grained model for unfolded proteins,...
Springer-Verlag, 2009. - 352 p. The mechanics of biological structures at the molecular, cellular and tissue levels is a multidisciplinary area of research that is expanding rapidly and brings together researchers in biology, medicine, engineering, physics, chemistry, material science and applied mathematics. The aim of the course is to present a state-of-the-art overview of...
New York: Springer, 2016. - 316 p. The book presents a state-of-the-art overview of biomechanical and mechanobiological modeling and simulation of soft biological tissues. Seven well-known scientists working in that particular field discuss topics such as biomolecules, networks and cells as well as failure, multi-scale, agent-based, bio-chemo-mechanical and finite element...
Springer, 2006. - 510 p. - The mechanics of biological tissues is a multidisciplinary and rapidly expanding area of research. The book points to important directions combining mechanical sciences with the exciting new developments in biology. It delivers state-of-the-art articles on: - Mechanics of tissues at the molecular, cellular, tissue and organ levels. - Mechanobiology,...
Routledge, Oxon, 2008. - 606 p. "The Routledge Handbook of Biomechanics and Human Movement Science" is a landmark work of reference. It offers a comprehensive and in-depth survey of current theory, research and practice in sports, exercise and clinical biomechanics, in both established and emerging contexts.Including contributions from many of the world's leading biomechanists,...
Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2017. - 301 p. The study of animal movement has always been a key element in ecological science, because it is inherently linked to critical processes that scale from individuals to populations and communities to ecosystems. Rapid improvements in biotelemetry data collection and processing technology have given rise to a variety of statistical methods for...
Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2008. - 454 p. Research and study in biomechanics has grown dramatically in recent years, to the extent that students, researchers, and practitioners in biomechanics now outnumber those working in the underlying discipline of mechanics itself. Filling a void in the current literature on this specialized niche, Principles of Biomechanics provides readers...
Springer, 2006. - 480 p. ISBN: 1402041160 Human-Like Biomechanics is a comprehensive introduction into modern geometrical methods to be used as a unified research approach in two apparently separate and rapidly growing fields: mathematical biomechanics and humanoid robotics. The book contains six Chapters and an Appendix. The first Chapter is an Introduction, giving a brief...
Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2007. — 686 p. Whether you are a bioengineer designing prosthetics, an aerospace scientist involved in life support, a kinesiologist training athletes, or an occupational physician prescribing an exercise regimen, you need the latest edition of Biomechanics and Exercise Physiology: Quantitative Modeling. Using numerous worked examples to demonstrate what...
ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2016. — 260 p. — (Mechanical Engineering and Solid Mechanics: Reliability of Multiphysical Systems. Volume 3) — ISBN: 1786300249 In this book, the authors present in detail several recent methodologies and algorithms that we have developed during the last fifteen years. The deterministic methods account for uncertainties through empirical...
Springer, 2018. — 706 p. — ISBN: 978-3-319-49790-7. This text acquaints the reader on the biomechanics of injury to the human body caused by impact and the use of computer models to simulate impact events. It provides a basic understanding of the biomechanics of the injuries resulting from the impact to the head, neck, chest, abdomen, spine, pelvis and the lower extremities,...
New York: InTech, 2011. - 420 p. Biomechanics of Musculoskeletal Injury Assessment of Maxillary Distraction Forces in Cleft Lip and Palate Patients Drilling of Bone: Practicality, Limitations and Compications Associated with Surgical Drill-Bits Application of Growth Factors for Enhancement of Mechanical Strength of Grafted Tendon Following Anterior Cruciate Ligament...
InTech, 2011. - 414 p. During last couple of years there has been an increasing recognition that problems arising in biology or related to medicine really need a multidisciplinary approach. For this reason some special branches of both applied theoretical physics and mathematics have recently emerged such as biomechanics, mechanobiology, mathematical biology, biothermodynamics....
2 edition. - McGraw-Hill Professional: 2009. - 1600 p. - ISBN10: 0071498400. The two-volume Biomedical Engineering and Design Handbook, Second Edition offers unsurpassed coverage of the entire biomedical engineering field, including fundamental concepts, design and development processes, and applications. This landmark work contains contributions on a wide range of topics from...
CRC Press, 2019. — 400 p. The objective of this book is to illustrate in specific detail how cardiovascular mechanics stands as a common pillar supporting such different clinical successes as drugs for high blood pressure, prosthetic heart valves and coronary artery bypass grafting, among others. This information is conveyed through a comprehensive treatment of the overarching...
Springer, 2019. - 212 p. This book focuses on the mechanobiological principles in tissue engineering with a particular emphasis on the multiscale aspects of the translation of mechanical forces from bioreactors down to the cellular level. The book contributes to a better understanding of the design and use of bioreactors for tissue engineering and the use of mechanical loading...
New York: Academic Press, 2016. - 401 p. Biomechanics and Motor Control: Defining Central Concepts provides a thorough update to the rapidly evolving fields of biomechanics of human motion and motor control with research published in biology, psychology, physics, medicine, physical therapy, robotics, and engineering consistently breaking new ground. This book clarifies the...
Springer Science + Business Media, Dordrecht, 2013. — 168 p. — ISBN: 9400758898 The application of methodological approaches and mathematical formalisms proper to Physics and Engineering to investigate and describe biological processes and design biological structures has led to the development of many disciplines in the context of computational biology and biotechnology. The...
Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Company, 2009. — 316 p. Because of rapid developments in computer technology and computational techniques, advances in a wide spectrum of technologies, coupled with cross-disciplinary pursuits between technology and its application to human body processes, the field of biomechanics continues to evolve. Many areas of significant progress...
Nova Science Publishers, 2010. - 415 p. - Biomechanics is the application of mechanical principles (statics, strength of materials and stress analysis to the solution of biological problems of living organisms. This includes bioengineering, the research and analysis of the mechanics of living organisms and the application of engineering principles to and from biological...
Springer, 2017. — 171 p. — ISBN: 978-3-319-51669-1. Fall-induced hip fracture is an epidemic health risk among elderly people. This book presents an image-based multilevel modeling approach to understanding the biomechanics involved in fall-induced hip fracture. By hierarchically integrating a body-level dynamics model, a femur-level finite element model, and a local bone...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. - 226 p. Orthopaedic surgeons require not only an understanding of anatomy and clinical sciences, and competence in surgical skills, but also a strong foundation in biomechanics. The application of biomechanics plays an increasing role in modern orthopaedics; for example, correct decisions about the mode of treatment and choice of...
Wiley, 2014. - 411 p. - At once a basic and applied science, biomechanics focuses on the mechanical cause–effect relationships that determine the motions of living organisms. Biomechanics for Dummies examines the relationship between biological and mechanical worlds. It clarifies a vital topic for students of biomechanics who work in a variety of fields, including biological...
2nd Edition. — Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2019. — 506 p. Each new print copy includes Navigate 2 Advantage Access that unlocks a comprehensive and interactive eBook, student practice activities and assessments, a full suite of instructor resources, and learning analytics reporting tools. Written for undergraduate biomechanics courses, Applied Biomechanics: Concepts and...
Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2011. - 179 p. The complexity of human uterine function and regulation is one of the great wonders of nature and represents a daunting challenge to unravel. This book is dedicated to the biomechanical modeling of the gravid human uterus and gives an example of the application of the mechanics of solids and the theory of soft shells to explore medical...
Springer-Verlag, 2011. — 236 p. Biomechanics of the Brain will present an introduction to brain anatomy for engineers and scientists. Experimental techniques such as brain imaging and brain tissue mechanical property measurement will be discussed, as well as computational methods for neuroimage analysis and modeling of brain deformations due to impacts and neurosurgical...
Springer, 2011. — 522 p. — (Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering) — ISBN: 978-1-4419-9997-9 The mechanical properties of living tissues continue to be the major topic of biomechanical investigations. Most researchers have investigated load-bearing tissues, such as bones, ligaments, muscles and other components of the musculoskeletal system, blood vessels (and...
2nd edition. — Springer, 2019. — 356 p. — (Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering) — ISBN: 978-3-030-04995-9 This new edition presents an authoritative account of the current state of brain biomechanics research for engineers, scientists and medical professionals. Since the first edition in 2011, this topic has unquestionably entered into the mainstream of...
New York, "Cambridge University", 2006. — 256 p. This book presents a full spectrum of views on current approaches to modeling cell mechanics. The authors of this book come from the biophysics, bioengineering, and physical chemistry communities and each joins the discussion with a unique perspective on biological systems. Consequently, the approaches range from finite element...
Nomad Press, 2017. — 128 p. Why do we walk on two legs? How do our muscles know how to work together when we dance? How does our brain work with our hands to sink a basketball? In Human Movement: How the Body Walks, Runs, Jumps, and Kicks, readers ages 12 to 15 learn the basic anatomy and physiology of the human body and discover how bones, muscles, tendons, and nerves work...
Wien: Springer, 1987. — 189 p. Modeling, Mathematical Description, Measurements and Control of the Selected Animal and Human Body Manipulation and Locomotion Movements Calculation of Loads Transmitted at the Anatomical Joints The Tension-Length and Force-Velocity Relationships of Human Muscle in Situ Analysis of Human Locomotion by Advanced Technologies and Methodologies
Taylor & Francis Group, 2011. - 558 p. - Mechanobiology - the study of the effects of mechanical environments on the biological processes of cells - has evolved from traditional biomechanics via the incorporation of strong elements of molecular and cell biology. Currently, a broad range of organ systems are being studied by surgeons, physicians, basic scientists, and engineers....
2nd edition. — Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2018. — 704 p. This will be a substantial revision of a former reference work that willl now be developed as a primary text for emerging courses in mechanobiology/cell mechanics being offered in a growing number of biomedical engineering and chemical engineering departments worldwide. It will also serve as a professional reference book for...
Elsevier, 2020. — 241 p. — ISBN: 978-0-12-817931-4. This book will provide a review of the current state of understanding of mechanobiology and its role in health and disease. It covers: Current understanding of the main molecular pathways by which cells sense and respond to mechanical stimuli, A review of diseases that with known or purported mechanobiological underpinnings;...
Philadelphia: Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins, 2012. — 888 p. Now in its Fourth Edition, Basic Biomechanics of the Musculoskeletal System uses a direct and comprehensive approach to present students with a working knowledge of biomechanical principles of use in the evaluation and treatment of musculoskeletal dysfunction. The text opens with a chapter that introduces the basic...
Routledge, 2017. — 248 p. Football Biomechanics explores the latest knowledge of this core discipline in sport science across all codes of the sport. Encompassing a variety of styles, including original scientific studies, syntheses of the latest research, and position statements, the text offers readers the most up-to-date and comprehensive reference of the underlying...
New York: Springer, 2014. - 172 p. Biomechanics of the Human Body teaches basic physics concepts using examples and problems based on the human body. The reader will also learn how the laws of mechanics may help to understand the conditions of the static and dynamic equilibrium of one of the marvels of nature: the human body. The mathematical language used in physics has always...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 348 p. This is the first textbook that integrates both general and specific topics, theoretical background and biomedical engineering applications, as well as analytical and numerical approaches. This quantitative approach integrates the classical concepts of mechanics and computational modeling techniques, in a logical progression through a...
2nd Edition. — Cambridge University Press, 2018. — 421 p. — (Cambridge Texts in Biomedical Engineering). — ISBN: 978-1-107-16372-0. 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...
N.-Y.: Springer, 2012. - 286 p. Biomechanics applies the principles and rigor of engineering to the mechanical properties of living systems. This book integrates the classic fields of mechanics-statics, dynamics, and strength of materials-using examples from biology and medicine. Fundamentals of Biomechanics is excellent for teaching either undergraduates in biomedical...
Academic Press, 2017. — 564 p. — ISBN: 9780128040096. This book is the first book to cover finite element biomechanical modeling of each organ in the human body. This collection of chapters from the leaders in the field focuses on the constitutive laws for each organ. Each author introduces the state-of-the-art concerning constitutive laws and then illustrates the...
CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2 edition, 2008, 352 p. Traditionally, applications of biomechanics will model system-level aspects of the human body. As a result, the majority of technological progress to date appears in system-level device development. More recently, biomechanical initiatives are investigating biological sub-systems such as tissues, cells, and molecules....
N.-Y.: CRC Press, 2014. - 405 p. Presents Current Principles and Applications Biomedical engineering is considered to be the most expansive of all the engineering sciences. Its function involves the direct combination of core engineering sciences as well as knowledge of nonengineering disciplines such as biology and medicine. Drawing on material from the biomechanics section of...
B.: Springer, 2011. - 149 p. The reader will find in this book a new approach to improving health. The author has called this approach “sanomechanics,” combining the Latin sanus (healthy, sound) and mechanicus (science of the motion of bodies subjected to forces). The focus of sanomechanics is on exercising with an understanding of the biomechanical consequences of the actions....
Academic Press, 2019. — 651 p. — ISBN: 978-0-12-812939-5. This book is rapidly becoming one of the most influential and innovative research directions defining the 21st century. Biomechatronics will provide a complete and up-to-date account of this advanced subject at the university textbook level. Each chapter in this book will be co-authored by top industry experts in the...
Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2013. — 337 p. The science and technology of biomechanics and robotics promise to be some of the most influential research directions of the twenty-first century. Biomechanics and Robotics goes beyond the individual areas of biomechanics, robotics, biomedical engineering, biomechatronics, and biologically inspired robotics to provide the first unified...
New York: Springer, 2016. - 371 p. Neuromechanics is a new, quickly growing field of neuroscience research that merges neurophysiology, biomechanics and motor control and aims at understanding living systems and their elements through interactions between their neural and mechanical dynamic properties. Although research in Neuromechanics is not limited by computational...
2nd edition. — Elsevier, 2018. — 382 p. — ISBN: 9780702054891 The Comprehensive Textbook of Clinical Biomechanics (formerly Biomechanics in Clinic and Research) presents the latest research in a form which is accessible, practical, thorough and up-to-the minute. Written by a leading expert in the field, The Comprehensive Textbook of Clinical Biomechanics will enable you to gain...
2nd Edition. — Human Kinetics, 2014. — 440 p. — ISBN13: 978-0-7360-9340-8. Research Methods in Biomechanics, Second Edition, demonstrates the range of available research techniques and how to best apply this knowledge to ensure valid data collection. In the highly technical field of biomechanics, research methods are frequently upgraded as the speed and sophistication of...
3rd ed. — Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2005. — 273 p. — ISBN: 0-7817-5954-4 The definitive text on human gait is now in its Third Edition — thoroughly revised to reflect recent advances in the study of human locomotion and the clinical use of gait analysis. The book features contributions from leading experts in all the disciplines involved in the study,...
Second Edition. — Academic Press, 2015 — 524 p. — (Biomedical Engineering). — ISBN: 978-0-12-800944-4. The book shows how fluid mechanics principles can be applied not only to blood circulation, but also to air flow through the lungs, joint lubrication, intraocular fluid movement, renal transport among other specialty circulations. This new second edition increases the breadth...
Champaign: Human Kinetics, 2019. — 730 p. Do you ever wonder how highly skilled performers in industry, sport, music, or dance make their actions appear so simple and easy? Do you marvel at the way they can perform with such efficiency, smoothness, style, and grace? Like the previous five editions of this text (Schmidt, 1982, 1988; Schmidt & Lee, 1999, 2005, 2011), the sixth...
5th Edition. — Human Kinetics, 2013. — 336 p. — ISBN: 978-1450443616. Motor Learning and Performance: From Principles to Application, Fifth Edition With Web Study Guide, describes the principles of motor performance and learning in a style that is accessible even to students with little or no knowledge of physiology, psychology, statistical methods, and other basic sciences....
Academic Press, 2019. — 603 p. — ISBN: 978-0-12-812539-7. This Handbook provides an introduction to biomechatronic design and an in-depth explanation of some of the most exciting and groundbreaking biomechatronic devices in the world. Edited by Dr. Jacob Segil and written by a strong team of biomechatronics experts, the book covers biomechatronic design, components, and...
Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2016. - 405 p. How Does the Body’s Motor Control System Deal with Repetition? While the presence of nonlinear dynamics can be explained and understood, it is difficult to be measured. A study of human movement variability with a focus on nonlinear dynamics, Nonlinear Analysis for Human Movement Variability, examines the characteristics of human movement...
New York: Springer, 2009. - 727 p. The area of motor control is a relatively young but thriving field of research. Over the last few decades it has grown into a broad multidiciplinary area of research spanning the disciplines of neurophysiology, kinesiology, neuroscience, robotics, psychology, nonlinear dynamics, biomechanics and biology, with no specific rank order. As of yet,...
CRC Press, 2019. — 271 p. — ISBN: 9781138500013 Whole Body Vibrations: Physical and Biological Effects on the Human Body allows an understanding about the qualities and disadvantages of vibration exposure on the human body with a biomechanical and medical perspective. It offers a comprehensive range of principles, methods, techniques and tools to provide the reader with a clear...
Tokyo: Springer, 2012. - 206 p. Rapid developments have taken place in biological/biomedical measurement and imaging technologies as well as in computer analysis and information technologies. The increase in data obtained with such technologies invites the reader into a virtual world that represents realistic biological tissue or organ structures in digital form and allows for...
Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2014. - 171 p. Evolutionary biomechanics is the study of evolution through the analysis of biomechanical systems. Its unique advantage is the precision with which physical constraints and performance can be predicted from first principles. Instead of reviewing the entire breadth of the biomechanical literature, a few key examples are explored in...
L.: Springer, 2016. - 204 p. This book provides a conceptual and computational framework to study how the nervous system exploits the anatomical properties of limbs to produce mechanical function. The study of the neural control of limbs has historically emphasized the use of optimization to find solutions to the muscle redundancy problem. That is, how does the nervous system...
Springer, 2019. - 314 p. - Volume 124 of Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics. Mechanical laws of motion were applied very early for better understanding anthropomorphic action as suggested in advance by Newton «For from hence are easily deduced the forces of machines, which are compounded of wheels, pullies, levers, cords, and weights, ascending directly or obliquely, and...
Academic Press, 2018. — 515 p. — ISBN: 978-0-12-812952-4. This book brings together contributions from leading biologists, clinicians, physicists and engineers in one convenient volume, providing a unified source of information for researchers in this highly multidisciplinary area. Opening chapters provide essential background information on cell mechanotransduction and...
2nd edition. — Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 1990. — 739 p. — ISBN: 9780397507207 Combining orthopedic surgery with biomechanical engineering, this reference and teaching text reviews and analyzes the clinical and scientific data on the mechanics of the human spine. This edition adds new material on vibration (i.e. road driving) and its effect on the spine; anatomy and...
CRC Press, 2013. — 637 p. Given the strong current attention of orthopaedic, biomechanical, and biomedical engineering research on translational capabilities for the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of clinical disease states, the need for reviews of the state-of-art and current needs in orthopaedics is very timely. Orthopaedic Biomechanics provides an in-depth review of...
4th edition, Wiley, Hoboken, New Jersey, 2009, 370 p., ISBN: 0470398183. The classic book on human movement in biomechanics, newly updated. Widely used and referenced, David Winter’s Biomechanics and Motor Control of Human Movement is a classic examination of techniques used to measure and analyze all body movements as mechanical systems, including such everyday movements as...
New York: Springer, 2000. - 689 p. Most routine motor tasks are complex, involving load transmission through out the body, intricate balance, and eye-head-shoulder-hand-torso-leg coor dination. The quest toward understanding how we perform such tasks with skill and grace, often in the presence of unpredictable perturbations, has a long history. This book arose from the Ninth...
Springer, 2001. — 262 p. Dynamic Modeling of Musculoskeletal Motion introduces biomechanists to modern methods of modeling and analyzing dynamic biomechanical systems in three dimensions. Using vector kinematics, the reader is taught a systematic method which significantly reduces the complexity of working with multiple, moving limb segments in three dimensions. Operations...
Academic Press, 2018. — 730 p. — ISBN: 978-0-12-809831-8. This book provides a unique introduction to finite element methods. Unlike other books on the topic, this comprehensive reference teaches readers to develop a finite element model from the beginning, including all the appropriate theories that are needed throughout the model development process. In addition, the book...
Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2020. — 375 p. This book systematically introduces the bionic nature of force sensing and control, the biomechanical principle on mechanism of force generation and control of skeletal muscle, and related applications in robotic exoskeleton. The book focuses on three main aspects: muscle force generation principle and biomechanical model, exoskeleton robot...
Human Kinetics Publishers, 2012. — 536 p. Richly illustrated and presented in clear, concise language, Biomechanics of Skeletal Muscles is an essential resource for those seeking advanced knowledge of muscle biomechanics. Written by leading experts Vladimir Zatsiorsky and Boris Prilutsky, the text is one of the few to look at muscle biomechanics in its entirety — from muscle...
CRC Press, 2017. — 447 p. This textbook is designed for an introductory course at undergraduate and graduate levels for bioengineering students. It provides a systematic way of examining bioengineering problems in a multidisciplinary computational approach. The book introduces basic concepts of multidiscipline-based computational modeling methods, provides detailed step-by-step...
Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2015. - 360 p. Computational biomechanics is an emerging research field that seeks to understand the complex biomechanical behaviors of normal and pathological human joints to come up with new methods of orthopedic treatment and rehabilitation.Computational Biomechanics of the Musculoskeletal System collects the latest research and cutting-edge techniques...
Springer, 2020. — 401 p. — (Studies in Mechanobiology, Tissue Engineering and Biomaterials 23I). — ISBN: 978-3-030-20181-4. This book describes the current state of knowledge in the field of multi-scale ECM mechanics and mechanobiology with a focus on experimental and modeling studies in biomechanical characterization, advanced optical microscopy and imaging, as well as...
Weinheim: Wiley, 2010. — 306 p. — ISBN: 3527324313 This monograph assembles expert knowledge on the latest biomechanical modeling and testing of hard tissues, coupled with a concise introduction to the structural and physical properties of bone and cartilage. A strong focus lies on the current advances in understanding bone structure and function from a materials science...
4th Edition. — Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, 2017. — 458 p. — ISBN: 3319447378 Biomechanics is a discipline utilized by different groups of professionals. It is a required basic science for orthopedic surgeons, neurosurgeons, osteopaths, physiatrists, rheumatologists, physical and occupational therapists, chiropractors, athletic trainers and beyond. These...
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