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Nptel: Biomechanics - Web Course

This document outlines the syllabus for a biomechanics web course. The course introduces biomechanics and provides an overview of key biomechanical concepts like rigid body mechanics, anatomical concepts, material characterization of tissues, mechanics of skeletal muscles, continuum mechanics, motion analysis, and cardiovascular mechanics. The course is divided into 11 topics that will be covered over multiple hours of instruction. Prerequisites include engineering mechanics and vector calculus. Recommended additional reading includes recent papers in the Journal of Biomechanics.

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Nptel: Biomechanics - Web Course

This document outlines the syllabus for a biomechanics web course. The course introduces biomechanics and provides an overview of key biomechanical concepts like rigid body mechanics, anatomical concepts, material characterization of tissues, mechanics of skeletal muscles, continuum mechanics, motion analysis, and cardiovascular mechanics. The course is divided into 11 topics that will be covered over multiple hours of instruction. Prerequisites include engineering mechanics and vector calculus. Recommended additional reading includes recent papers in the Journal of Biomechanics.

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NPTEL Syllabus

Biomechanics - Web course

COURSE OUTLINE

Introduction: What is Biomechanics, History, Perspectives in Biomechanics;

NPTEL
Rigid Body BioMechanics; Anatomical Concepts in Biomechanics.

Material Characterization of Tissues: Classification of Tissues, Properties of


Tissues from Mechanics Point of View, Modeling of Tissues. http://nptel.iitm.ac.in
Mechanics of Skeletal Muscles: Skeletal Muscles as Elastic fibres in one
dimension, Viscous behavior, Non-linear viscoelasticity; Continuum Mechanics
Concepts in Modeling of large deformation; Stress in three-dimensional Mechanical
continuous media.
Engineering
Motion: The time as an extra dimension; Deformation and rotation, deformation
rate and spin; Constitutive modeling of solids and fluids.

Cardiovascular Mechanics: Cardiovascular Physiology, Blood Flow Models,


Blood Vessel Mechanics, Heart Valve Dynamics, Prosthetic Valve Dynamics. Pre-requisites:

Engineering Mechanics, Vector


Calculus
COURSE DETAIL

Additional Reading:
Sl. No Topic Hours
Recent papers in the Journal of
Biomechanics.
1. Introduction: What is Biomechanics 1

Coordinators:
2. Rigid Body Mechanics 1 Dr. M. Manivannan
Department of Applied MechanicsIIT
Madras
3. Anatomical Concepts 3
Prof. C. Lakshmana Rao
Department of Applied MechanicsIIT
Madras
4. Material Characterization of Tissues 3

5. Mechanics of Skeletal Muscles 4

6. Continuum Mechanics Concepts in Modeling of large 5


deformation

7. Stress in three - dimensional continuous media 4

8. Motion: the time as an extra dimension 4

9. Deformation and rotation, deformation rate and spin 5

10. Constitutive modeling of solids and fluids 5

11. Cardiovascular Mechanics 8


References:

1. Biomechanics, by Fung C.

2. Basic Biomechsnics by Hall et.al.

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