BIEN 430

Course Topics

1.Biomaterials

2.Free body diagrams

3.Pulse-wave propagation

4.Components of Stress

5.Normal and shear strain

6.Strain Rate

7.Principal strains

8.Navier-Stokes Equations and Continuity

9.Navier’s Equations and Compatibility

10.Eulerian and Lagrangian viewpoints

11.Newtonian Fluid

12.Hookean Elastic Solid

13.Basic tensor transformation laws

14.Isotropy

15.Viscoelastic solids

16.Viscoelastic fluids

17.Blood and other non-Newtonian fluids

18.Fahraeus-Lindqvist effect

19.Elasticity of red blood cells

20.Properties of leucocytes – tethers

21.Mechanical properties of blood vessels

22.Hill’s equation

23.Wolff’s Law

24.Cartiledge

Steven A. Jones

Louisiana Tech University, Biomechanics