Advanced Tissue Mechanics
Advanced tissue mechanics covers solid mechanics for soft tissues, including strain, stress, constitutive modeling, growth, failure, and finite elasticity.
Summary
Lectures are small, with a median of 6 enrolled students in the recorded sections.
What you’ll be able to do
Compute strain from multiple different types of marker and image data
Compute stresses using data from uniaxial, biaxial, and inflation mechanical tests
Construct and utilize constitutive models appropriate for soft tissues
Formulate and analyze continuum models of biological growth
Identify common failure criteria applied to soft tissues
Source: UW Guide 1· UW Guide 2
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Prerequisites
Course map(M E/B M E 615,E M A 710, or 622 prior to Fall 2024) and graduate/professional standing
- BME/ME 615
- EMA 710
- or 622 prior to Fall 2024
- graduate/professional standing
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- All of
- Any of
- BME/ME 615
- EMA 710
- or 622 prior to Fall 2024
- graduate/professional standing
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Central topics in solid mechanics applied to soft tissues, including analysis of strain in the setting of large deformations, computation of stress in multiple experimental loading configurations, constitutive modeling of biomaterials using hyperelastic strain-energy functions, modeling tissue growth and remodeling, and the main theories for soft tissue failure will be covered. Application of finite elasticity theory in practical laboratory situations, and key papers and concepts in soft tissue mechanics.
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Topics
- Strain analysis in large deformations
- Stress computation in experimental loading configurations
- Constitutive modeling using hyperelastic strain-energy functions
- Tissue growth and remodeling modeling
- Soft tissue failure theories
- Finite elasticity theory applications
Skills
- Computing strain from marker and image data
- Computing stresses from mechanical test data
- Constructing and utilizing constitutive models for soft tissues
- Formulating and analyzing continuum models of biological growth
- Identifying common failure criteria for soft tissues
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