Research Catalog

Title

Biomechanics of the musculo-skeletal system / B.M. Nigg, W. Herzog, editors.

Publication

Chichester ; New York : J. Wiley, [1994], ©1994.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Herzog, Walter.
• Nigg, Benno Maurus.

Description

xv, 578 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Subjects

• Musculoskeletal System
• Biomechanical Phenomena
• Musculoskeletal system
• Biomechanics

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1. Introduction. 1.1. Definition of Biomechanics / B. M. Nigg. 1.2. Selected Historical Highlights / B. M. Nigg. 1.3. Mechanics / B. M. Nigg -- 2. Biomaterials. 2.1. Bone / B. M. Nigg and S. K. Grimston. 2.2. Articular Cartilage / N. G. Shrive and C. B. Frank. 2.3. Ligament / C. B. Frank and N. G. Shrive. 2.4. Tendon / W. Herzog and B. Loitz. 2.5. Muscle / W. Herzog. 2.6. Joints / N. G. Shrive and C. B. Frank -- 3. Measuring Techniques. 3.1. Force / B. M. Nigg. 3.2. Pressure Distribution / B. M. Nigg. 3.3. Acceleration / B. M. Nigg. 3.4. Optical Methods / B. M. Nigg and G. K. Cole. 3.5. Strain Measurement / N. Shrive. 3.6. EMG / W. Herzog, A. C. S. Guimaraes and Y. T. Zhang. 3.7. Inertial Properties of the Human or Animal Body / B. M. Nigg -- 4. Modelling. 4.1. A Nearly Possible Story / B. M. Nigg. 4.2. General Comments About Modelling / B. M. Nigg. 4.3. The Free Body Diagram / B. M. Nigg.
• 4.4. Mathematically Determinate Systems / B. M. Nigg. 4.5. Mathematically Indeterminate Systems / W. Herzog and P. Binding. 4.6. General Considerations on Determinate and Indeterminate Systems / B. M. Nigg. 4.7. Energy Considerations / M. Epstein. 4.8. Simulation / B. M. Nigg and A. J. Van den Bogert -- Appendix A: Kick.C.

ISBN

0471944440 :

LCCN

94001827

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries