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CSE-890 Analysis of Biomechanical Systems
Campus RCMS
Programs PG
Session Fall Semester 2016
Course Title Analysis of Biomechanical Systems
Course Code CSE-890
Credit Hours 3-0
Pre-Requisutes CSE – 882, CSE – 885, CSE – 887 and CSE - 888
Course Objectives Course information: Develop skills in reading and evaluating biomechanical research in the areas of movement control, strength, fatigue, posture and locomotion. Increase skills in the areas of biomechanical measurement and analysis.

Course objectives: This course is designed to fulfil the following objectives:
  1. Develop an ability to understand techniques, skills and tools in engineering practice and be prepared for further education in engineering, medicine or biomedical science.
  2. To be able to apply the fundamental principles of mechanics to the analysis and simulation of the human movement.
  3. To provide an introduction to some of the key literature.
  4. To provide the student with the background to allow him/her to be competent and informed in the use of most of the major types of laboratory equipment. These include:
    • High end visualization (2D and 3D)
    • Commercial engineering software e.g. Abaqus or Comsol Multiphysics
    • Advanced image processing suites.
    • Cameragraphy (Capturing motion)
  5. Offer a hands-on training in computational modeling of biomechanical phenomena ranging from cellular to tissue to organ scales.
  6. To provide an introduction to supercomputers as a data acquisition and analysis device.
  7. To train students in literature research, where they will give a 10 minute presentation on the relationship between structure and function in a material or a structure, and how these have been determined.
  8. Also, to train them in research skills, where they will carry out a short experimental study on a material or a structure and write it up as a poster.
Detail Content Course outcomes:
  • To give a broad overview of the mechanical designs of the materials and structures that have been evolved by organisms, together with the ways these can be used or mimicked by man.
  • To train in the research, computational and practical skills needed to investigate solid biomechanical systems.
  • To set up a virtual biomechanics laboratory.
Course contents:
  • Materials: what they are made of, how they work, what their properties are and how they are used by organisms.
  • Structures: what forces they have to resist, what shape they are, what materials they are made of and how they are used by organisms.
  • The properties of materials.
  • Mechanics of biomaterials (bone, cartilage, tendon, ligament and muscle) in response to mechanical stress.
  • Application of stress, strain, modulus and creep analysis.
  • Mechanical testing procedures in complicated biological geometries.
  • Mechanical interaction between organisms.
  • 2D and 3D analysis of structural biomechanics.
  • Comprehensive review.
  • Brainstorming sessions.
  • Course format will include readings, lectures, active learning exercises, discussion, group activities, in-class quizzes, sessional and a final exams.
Text/Ref Books
  • Duane V. Knudson, Fundamentals of biomechanics. 2nd ed. Springer, The University of Michigan Press, February 2010. ISBN0387493115, 9780387493114.
  • John D. Currey, Bones: Structure and mechanics, Princeton University Press, June 2002. ISBN: 0691090963 (ISBN13: 9780691090962).
  • Nancy Hamilton, Kathryn Luttgens, Kinesiology: Scientific Basis of Human Motion, McGraw-Hill , June 2007. ISBN: 0072972971 (ISBN13: 9780072972979).
  • Nihat Zkaya, Margareta Nordin, David Goldsheyder, Fundamentals of Biomechanics: Equilibrium, Motion, and Deformation, Springer, May 2012, ISBN: 1461411491 (ISBN13: 9781461411499).
  • Basic Orthopaedic Biomechanics, by Mow and Hayes.
  • Fundamentals of Orthopaedic Biomechanics, by Burstein and Wright.
  • Research Methods in Biomechanics, Author: Robertson, D.G.E., Caldwell, G.E., Hamill, J., Kamen, G., & Whittlesey, S.N. Edition: 2004. Publisher: Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics
Time Schedule
Faculty/Resource Person Assistant Professor - Dr Zartasha Mustansar