This subject equips the student with detailed knowledge of theoretical, numerical and experimental techniques to analyse stress systems, in particular in reference to the human skeletal system.
Beam Bending Stress: Beam bending theory, including point and UDL loads, in particular as they apply to long bones in the human body.
Analyse musculoskeletal joints: Create free body diagrams of the hip, knee and intervertebral disk . Hence calculate the forces and stresses in the bones.
Complex Stresses & Stress Transformations: Calculate Principal stresses & planes; max shear stress, from applied stresses.
Failure Theories: Investigate the failure of bones and implants using max principal stress and max distortion energy theories. Investigate particular issues that affect the failure of bones as opposed to homogeneous materials.
Free Vibration: Introduction, Simple Harmonic Motion, natural frequencies, damped free vibration.
Forced Vibration: Forced vibration, transient response, transmission of force, isolation of vibration
Vibration and the Human Body: Investigate the effects of vibration on the human body, body positive and negative. Including motion sickness, vehicle vibration, white finger,
Vibration & Medical Device design: The use of vibrations in medical devices, including oscillating saws.
