BME/ME 456 Biosolid Mechanics: Modeling and Applications

Date      Day            Topic (subject to change, which will be updated)

Sept.4     Thursday   Class Overview; Index Notation    

Sept 9     Tuesday   Review of Continuum Mechanics: Stress Equilibrium

Sept.11    Thursday   Review of Continuum Mechanics: Displacement and Strain Alternate Stress Tensors

Sept 16     Tuesday  Review of Continuum Mechanics: Alternate Stress Tensors

Sept 18    Thursday   Constitutive Models: Linear and Nonlinear Elasticity

Sept 23    Tuesday   Constitutive Models: Linear and Nonlinear Elasticity; Proposal (1 page) Tissue Modeling Due

Sept 25    Thursday   Fitting Nonlinear Elastic Constitutive Models using MATLAB: Application Cardiovascular Tissues

Sept 30     Tuesday   Fitting Nonlinear Elastic Constitutive Models using MATLAB: Application Cardiovascular Tissues

Oct 2       Thursday    Finite Element Modeling for Nonlinear Elastic Models in ABAQUS

Oct 7      Tuesday    Constitutive Models: Viscoelasticity

Oct 9      Thursday   Constitutive Models: Viscoelasticity

Oct 14     Tuesday   Fitting Viscoelastic Constitutive Models using MATLAB: Application Ligaments

Oct 16     Thursday   Fitting Viscoelastic Constitutive Models: Review for MidTerm

Oct 21     Tuesday   No class: Fall Study Break

Oct 23     Thursday    In Class Mid-Term Exam

Oct 28      Tuesday    Poroelastic Constitutive Models for Soft Tissues

Oct 30      Thursday    Fitting Poroelastic Constitutive Models using MATLAB: Application Cartilage

Nov 4       Tuesday     Nonlinear Elastic Constitutive Models: Applications in Cardiovascular Mechanics

Nov 6     Thursday      Nonlinear Elastic Constitutive Models: Applications in Cardiovascular Mechanics

Nov 11    Tuesday      Nonlinear and Viscoelastic Constitutive Models: Applications for Skin and Fat Soft Tissues

Nov 13     Thursday     Numerical implementation of hard and soft tissue growth and remodeling theories

Nov 18      Tuesday  Oral Presentation of Projects

Nov. 20      Thursday     Oral Presentation of Projects

Nov. 25      Tuesday  Oral Presentation of Projects

Nov 27       Thursday   No Class: Happy Thanksgiving!

Dec 2      Tuesday  Oral Presentation of Projects

Dec 4     Thursday        Oral Presentation of Projects

Dec 9      Tuesday     End of Class; Final Review