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Author Huston, Ronald L., 1937-

Title Principles of biomechanics / Ronald L. Huston
Published Boca Raton : CRC Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 430 pages) : illustrations
Series Mechanical engineering ; 213
Mechanical engineering (Taylor & Francis) ; 213.
Contents Review of human anatomy and some basic terminology -- Methods of analysis I : review of vectors, dyadics, matrices, and determinants -- Methods of analysis II : forces and force systems -- Methods of analysis III : mechanics of materials -- Methods of analysis IV : modeling of biosystems -- Tissue biomechanics -- Kinematical preliminaries : fundamental equations -- Kinematic preliminaries : inertia force considerations -- Human body inertia properties -- Kinematics of human body models -- Kinetics of human body models -- Dynamics of human body models -- Numerical methods -- Simulations and applications
Summary Focuses on biosystems and the human body in particular. This book presents an introduction to the concepts of biosystem modelling, and discusses elementary mechanics, including methods of analysis, and introduces the human skeletal anatomy
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-417) and index
Notes English
Subject Human mechanics.
Biomechanics.
Biological models.
Biomechanical Phenomena
Models, Biological
MEDICAL -- Physiology.
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Human Anatomy & Physiology.
Biological models
Biomechanics
Human mechanics
Biomekanik.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2008049911
ISBN 9780849334948
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