Includes bibliographical references (pages 675-680) and index.
Introduction -- Stress, strain, and constitutive relations -- Equilibrium, universal solutions, and inflation -- Extension and torsion -- Beam bending and column buckling -- Some nonlinear problems -- Stress, motion, and constitutive relations -- Fundamental balance relations -- Some exact solutions -- Control volume and semi-empirical method -- Coupled solid-fluid problems -- Epilogue.
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This book covers the fundamentals of biomechanics. Topics include bio solids, biofluids, stress, balance and equilibrium. Students are encouraged to contextualize principles and exercises within a big picture of biomechanics. This is an ideal book for undergraduate students with interests in biomedical engineering.