Biomechanics
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Biomechanics Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Biomechanics (subject code 3160308) as prescribed for Biomed · Semester 6 divides the course into 4 units, covering 37 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (3160308)Unit 1 Introduction of Mechanics
- Review of the principles of mechanics
- Vector mechanics- Resultant forces of Coplaner & Noncoplaner and Concurrent & non-concurrent forces
- parallel force in space
- couple forces and moment
- Equilibrium of forces and moments
- Newton’s laws of motion
- pulley and lever
- Moment of inertia
- Statics and introduction to Dynamics (linear kinematics), and relevant numerical examples
- work and power
Unit 2 Biomechanics of Joints
- Skeletal joints
- forces and stresses in human joints
- Analysis of rigid bodies in equilibrium
- free body diagrams
- types of joint
- biomechanical analysis of elbow
- spinal column
- hip knee and ankle
Unit 3 Hard Tissues
- Bone structure & composition
- mechanical properties of solids
- cortical and cancellous bones
- viscoelastic properties
- Maxwell & Kelvin- Voight models – anisotropy
- Soft Tissues: Structure and functions of Soft Tissues: Cartilage
- Ligament, and Muscle
- Material Properties: Cartilage
- Modeling of soft tissues: Cartilage
- Hills’s muscle model
Unit 4 Biofluid Mechanics
- intrinsic fluid properties
- viscosity and viscometers
- Couette flow and Hagen-poiseuille equation
- Bernoulli equation
- laminar flow
- turbulent flow
- flow development
- Rheological properties of blood
- Subject Code: 3160308 w.e.f
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