Biomechanics and biomedical engineering
Biomechanics and biomedical engineering
Biomechanics combines engineering and the life sciences by applying principles from classical mechanics to the study of living systems. This relatively new field covers a broad range of topics, including strength of biological materials, biofluid mechanics in the cardiovascular and respiratory systems, material properties and interactions of medical implants and the body, heat and mass transfer into biological tissues, biocontrol systems regulating metabolism or voluntary motion, and kinematics and kinetics applied to human gait. The great breadth of the field of biomechanics arises from complexities and variety of biological organisms and systems.
Biomedical engineers should be able to:
- Understand the application of engineering kinematic relations to biomechanical problems.
- Understand the applications of engineering kinetic relations to biomechanical problems.
- Understand the applications of engineering mechanics of materials to biological structures.
- Use MATLAB to write and solve biomechanical static and dynamic equations.
- Use Simulink to study viscoelastic properties of biological tissues.
- Understand how kinematic equations of motion are used in clinical analysis of human gait.
- Understand how kinetic equations of motion are used in clinical analysis of human gait.
- Explain how biomechanics applied to human gait is used to quantify pathological conditions, to suggest surgical and clinical treatments, and to quantify their effectiveness.
- Understand basic rheology of biological fluids.
- Understand the development of models that describe blood vessel mechanics.
- Understand basic heart mechanics.
- Explain how biomechanics applied to the cardiovascular system is used to quantify the effectiveness of the heart as a pump, to study heart as a pump, to study heart-vessel interaction, and to develop clinical applications.
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