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Free Body Diagrams |
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Sept 24, Class 1: Introduction to Solid and Gel Biomechanics
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Sept 26, Class 2: Free Body Diagrams
- including moments in equilibrium equations
- Gere 4.1, 4.2
HW 1 assigned: FBD (all hw posted on canvas, usually by Wednesday) |
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Stress and Strain |
Sept 29, Class 3: Linear Materials Properties
- normal and shear stress and strain
- Young's modulus, Shear modulus
- Material Failure
- Gere 1.1-1.3
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Oct 1, Class 4: analysis of stress and strain
HW 1 due. (all solutions posted on canvas after due date)
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Oct 3, Class 5: analysis continued
HW 2 assigned: stress and strain
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3
Bars and Beams
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Oct 6, Class 6 : Axial Loading
- deformation sign conventions
- finding internal forces
- stresses and strains from axial loads
- Gere 2.1-2.3, 2.6
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Oct 8, Class 7 : Torsion in Beams and Combined Loads
- stresses and strains from pure torsion
- combined loads
- Gere 3.1-3.3
HW 2 due.
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Oct 10, Class 8 : Shear Forces on Beams
- shear forces and bending moments
- Gere 4.3 - 4.5
HW 3 assigned: bars |
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More Beams |
Oct 13, Class 9: Normal Stresses in Beams
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Oct 15, Class 10: Shear Stresses in Beams
HW 3 due
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Oct 17, Class 11: Ted Gross: Orthopedic Biomechanics
- bone physiology
- mechanotransduction
- experiment design
- reading
HW 4 assigned: stresses in beams |
5
Beam Deflections
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Oct 20, Class 12: Deflections of Beams
- equations of beam deflections
- Gere 8.1-8.3
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Oct 22, No class: view online lecture: Class 13: Columns
HW 4 not due until Friday |
Oct 24, Class 14: Midterm Review.
HW 4 due in class
HW 5 assigned: beam and column deflections
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6
Pressure Vessels
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Oct 27, Class 15: MIDTERM 1: weeks 1-4. (Gere chapters 1-6, 7.4)
see canvas for midterm key
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Oct 29, Class 16: Plane Stress and Pressure Vessels
- spherical vessels
- cylindrical vessels
- large deflections
- strain hardening
- Gere 7.1-7.
HW 5 not due until Friday
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Oct 31 , Class 17: Ying Zhang: Arterial Biomechanics
HW 5 due in class
HW 6 assigned: pressure vessels. |
7
Visco-elasticity |
Nov 3, Class 18: Building Viscoelastic Models
- tests of viscoelastic behavior
- Building models of viscoelasticity
- Fung, Ch. 1.2, 1.3
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Nov 5, Class 19: Behavior of viscoelastic models
HW 6 due |
Nov 7, Class 20: Literature Analysis slides and written notes (with class notes from Nov 10 discussion)
- evaluating level of certainty
- paraphrasing and citations
- Elias paper
HW 7 assigned: Viscoelasticity |
8
Molecular Basis of Materials Properties
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Nov 10; Class 21: Introduction to Molecular Biomechanics
- bond energies and elasticity
- effect of force on molecular states
- FimH state change example
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Nov 12, Class 22: Molecular Basis of Elasticity
- Estimating Young's modulus
- Material failure
- chart of materials properties
HW 7 due
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Nov 14, Class 23: Molecular Biomechanics continued and Literature Analysis discussion
HW 8 assigned: molecular basis of materials properties
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9
Molecular Biomechanics
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Nov 17, Class 24: Strain Hardening Elasticity
- molecular models
- constitutive models
- functional advantages
- examples
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Nov 19, Class 25: Strain Softening or Yielding
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Nov 21, Class 26: Nathan White: Research in Biomechanics in Thrombosis
- HW 8 due
- HW 9 assigned: Nonlinear Elasticity
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10
Mechano-transduction
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Nov 24, Class 27: Biomechanics of Adhesion
- adhesive structures
- slip and catch bonds
- strength of bond clusters
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Nov 26, Class 28: Mechanotransduction
HW 9 due
HW 10 assigned: Mechanotransduction
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Nov 28, THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY; NO Class
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11
Review Week
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Dec 1, Class 29: Wendy Thomas: Research in Cell Adhesion Biomechanics
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Dec 3, Class 30: Discussion of Biomechanics Literature
- discuss lit anal already performed.
- see lecture 20 for more extensive lit analysis written notes, also linked here
Hw 10 due |
Dec 5, Class 31: Review of Course material
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| finals week |
Final version equation sheet
FINAL EXAM:
Monday, December 08, 2014, 8:30-10:20 AM, SMI 102
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