Research Catalog

Title

Fundamentals of biomechanics : equilibrium, motion, and deformation / Nihat Ozkaya, Margareta Nordin ; project editor, Dawn L. Leger ; with forewords by Victor H. Frankel and Richard Skalak.

Author

Özkaya, Nihat, 1956-1998.

Publication

New York : Springer, [1999], ©1999.

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Additional Authors

Nordin, Margareta.

Description

xxi, 393 pages : illustrations; 29 cm

Summary

"Fundamentals of Biomechanics is an excellent textbook for teaching either undergraduates in biomedical engineering programs or healthcare professionals studying biomechanics at the graduate level. The book integrates the classic fields of mechanics - statics, dynamics, and strength of materials - for better understanding and solving problems in physiology and medicine."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Biomechanics
• Biomechanical Phenomena

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Foreword to the Second Edition / Victor H. Frankel -- Foreword to the First Edition / Richard Skalak -- Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. Force Vector -- Ch. 3. Moment and Torque -- Ch. 4. Statics: Analyses of Systems in Equilibrium -- Ch. 5. Applications of Statics to Biomechanics -- Ch. 6. Introduction to Deformable Body Mechanics -- Ch. 7. Stress and Strain -- Ch. 8. Multiaxial Deformations and Stress Analyses -- Ch. 9. Mechanical Properties of Biological Tissues -- Ch. 10. Introduction to Dynamics -- Ch. 11. Linear Kinematics -- Ch. 12. Linear Kinetics -- Ch. 13. Angular Kinematics -- Ch. 14. Angular Kinetics -- Ch. 15. Impulse and Momentum -- App. A. Plane Geometry -- App. B. Vector Algebra -- App. C. Calculus.

ISBN

0387982833 (hbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

98030564

OCLC

• 39627470
• ocm39627470
• SCSB-3886029

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries