BME 5810 - Soft Tissue Biomechanics

(crosslisted) MAE 5680

Fall. 3 credits. Letter grades only.

Prerequisite: ENGRD 2020, BME 3410 or MAE 3270. Enrollment limited to: graduate students; seniors by permission of instructor.

J.T. Butcher.

Introduces concepts of biomechanics applied to understanding the material behavior of soft tissues. Topics include finite strain, nonlinearities, constitutive frameworks, and experimental methodologies. Tissues to be modeled include tendons, blood vessels, heart valves, cartilage, and engineered tissues.