Huston, Ronald L., 1937-

Fundamentals of biomechanics / Ronald L. Huston. - xv, 454 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Revised edition of: Principles of biomechanics. 2009.

Includes bibliographical references (page 447) and index.

Review of human anatomy and some basic terminology -- Methods of analysis I: review of vectors, dyadics, matrices, and determinants -- Methods of analysis II: forces and force systems -- Methods of analysis III: mechanics of materials -- Methods of analysis IV: modeling of biosystems -- Tissue biomechanics -- Kinematical preliminaries: fundamental equations -- Kinematic preliminaries: inertia force considerations -- Human body inertia properties -- Kinematics of human body models -- Kinetics of human body models -- Dynamics of human body models -- Numerical methods -- Simulations and applications.

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Biomechanical Phenomena.
Models, Biological.