BME 456: Biosolid Mechanics: Modeling and Applications
General Info, Grading, Syllabus
Instructor:
Scott J. Hollister, PhD
Professor of Biomedical Engineering,
Surgery, and Mechanical Engineering
Announcements;
Contact:
Rm. 2208 LBME.
Email: scottho@umich.edu
Phone: 647-9962
Course Information:
Class: T, Th 10:30-12:00
Office Hours:
Tuesday - 12:00-1:00
Thursday - 12:00-1:00
Classroom: 1003 EECS
Grading:
33% Weekly in Class Quizzes, 2-3 MATLAB Homework Assignments
33% Mid-Term Exam
33% Final Computational Project:Written Report
Lecture Notes by Section:
Chapter 1: Mathematical Preliminaries
Chapter 3: Displacement, Deformation and Strain
Chapter 4: Alternate Definitions of Stress
Chapter 5: Constitutive Equations: Linear and Nonlinear Elasticity
Chapter 6: Fitting Nonlinear Elastic Model Data Using Experiments and Optimization.
Chapter 7: Finite Element Modeling
Chapter 9: Constitutive Equations: Viscoelasticity
Chapter 9: Fitting Quasilinear Viscoelastic Model Data Using Experiments and Optimization
Chapter 10: Constitutive Equations: Poroelasticity/Biphasic Theory
Chapter 11: Fitting Biphasic Model Data Using Experiments and Optimization