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Valid for year : 2004
 
TBMT03 Biomechanics, 7,5 ECTS credits.
/Biomekanik/

For:   D   I   Ii   M   TB   Y  

 

Prel. scheduled hours: 70
Rec. self-study hours: 130

  Area of Education: Technology

Subject area: Mechanical Engineering

  Advancement level (A-D): D

Aim:
The course aims to bring understanding to the fundamental principles of biomechanics by to applying the concepts and methods of the physical sciences and mathematics in an engineering approach to problems in living structures and organisms.

Prerequisites: (valid for students admitted to programmes within which the course is offered)
Calculus, Algebra and Mechanics

Note: Admission requirements for non-programme students usually also include admission requirements for the programme and threshhold requirements for progression within the programme, or corresponding.

Supplementary courses:
Computational Fluid Mechanics TMMV53, Multi body dynamics TMMSxx, Project (biomechanics) TMMSyy.

Organisation:
Lectures, written assignments and project task.

Course contents:
Biomechanics of solids and fluids, modeling and simulation of biological systems, biomaterials, bioheat transfer, mass transfer, bone mechanics and muscle mechanics.

Course literature:
Introduction to Bioengineering, S. A. Berger, W. Goldsmith, E. R. Lewis, Oxford University Press, 2000. Biomechanics compendium.

Examination:
Hand-in exercises
5 p
 



Course language is Swedish.
Department offering the course: IMT.
Director of Studies: Göran Salerud
Examiner: Matts Karlson
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Last updated: 11/17/2004