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[...]... exposure, and response Recent applications of these protocols model human interactions with existing and developmental devices such as powered and nonpowered tools, spacesuits and spacetools for NASA, surgical and dental instruments, musical instruments, sports equipment, and computer input devices Other research initiatives focus on cell biomechanics, the acoustics of hearing protection and communication,... Medicine, and Engineering at the University of Connecticut, and director of the Biodynamics Laboratory and the Bioengineering Facility at the University of Connecticut Health Center, offers graduate-level courses in biomedical engineering in the fields of biomechanics, biodynamics, biofluid mechanics, and ergonomics, and teaches in medicine in the subjects of gross anatomy and occupational biomechanics. .. used in the experiment, and the molecular and ultrastructural levels of organization in both types of tissues are essentially identical Note that while C 11 almost equals C 22 and that C 44 and C 55 are equal for bovine haversian bone, C 11 and C 22 and C 44 and C 55 differ by 11.6 and 13.4%, respectively, for bovine plexiform bone Similarly, although C 66 and 1 (C 11 − C 12 ) differ by 12.0% for the... apatites where K V and K R are the Voigt (uniform strain across an interface) and Reuss (uniform stress across an interface) bulk moduli, respectively, and G V and G R are the Voigt and Reuss shear moduli, respectively The equations for K V , K R , G V , and G R are provided for both transverse isotropy and orthotropic symmetry in Appendix Table 1.5 lists the values of As ∗ (%) and Ac ∗ (%) for various... Science 165: 287 Lipson S.F and Katz, J.L 1984 The relationship between elastic properties and microstructure of bovine cortical bone J Biomech 4: 231 Lugassy A.A 1968 Mechanical and Viscoelastic Properties of Bone and Dentin in Compression, thesis, Metallurgy and Materials Science, University of Pennsylvania Maharidge R 1984 Ultrasonic properties and microstructure of bovine bone and Haversian bovine bone... aerospace and biomedical engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, a M.S in mechanical engineering from the University of Connecticut, and a Ph.D in biomedical engineering also from the University of Connecticut Dr Peterson’s current research work is focused on the development of laboratory and field techniques for accurately assessing and modeling human–device interaction and human and/ or organism... be found in Yoon and Katz [1976a] Presented below are the simplified equations for the case of transverse isotropy Young’s modulus is 1 = S33 = 1 − γ32 2S11 + γ34 S33 + γ32 1 − γ32 (2S13 + S44 ) E (γ3 ) where γ3 = cos φ, and φ is the angle made with respect to the bone (3) axis (1.11) 1-8 Biomechanics TABLE 1.3 Mean Values and Standard Deviations for the C ij Measured by Van Buskirk and Ashman [1981]... Engineering Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Baltimore, Maryland Roland N Pittman Medical College of Virginia Richmond, Virginia Aleksander S Popel Department of Biomedical Engineering Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, Maryland xiv Alexander A Spector Biomedical Engineering Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, Maryland Charles R Steele Applied Mechanical Division Stanford University Stanford,... Lakes R.S and Katz J.L 1979b Viscoelastic properties of wet cortical bone: III A nonlinear constitutive equation J Biomech 12: 689 Lakes R.S and Katz J.L 1984 Viscoelastic properties of bone In G.W Hastings and P Ducheyne (Eds.), Natural and Living Tissues, pp 1–87 Boca Raton, FL, CRC Press Lakes R.S., Katz J.L., and Sternstein S.S 1979 Viscoelastic properties of wet cortical bone: I Torsional and biaxial... 1969; Yoon and Katz, 1976a, b; Van Buskirk and Ashman, 1981] This is possible, since combining Hooke’s law with Newton’s second law results in a wave 1-6 Biomechanics equation that yields the following relationship involving the stiffness matrix: ρV 2 Um = C mrns Nr Ns Un (1.9) where ρ is the density of the medium, V is the wave speed, and U and N are unit vectors along the particle displacement and wave . system and subsystem models will advance our overall understanding of human function and performance and further develop the prin- ciples of biomechanics. Even still, our modern understanding. of biomechanics, biodynamics, biofluid mechanics, and ergonomics, and teaches in medicine in the subjects of gross anatomy and occupational biomechanics. He earned a B.S. in both aerospace and. assessing and modeling human–device interaction and human and/ or organism performance, exposure, and response. Recent applications of these protocols model human interactions with existing and developmental