Morphological and functional basisModule BIOMECHANICS
Academic Year 2023/2024 - Teacher: Guido LA ROSAExpected Learning Outcomes
Provide the basics of biomechanics to understand the actions of external forces and internal forces on the musculo-skeletal structure.
Acquire a basic grounding about the biomechanical properties of materials and biological tissues.
Course Structure
Frontal lessons.
Required Prerequisites
Detailed Course Content
Forces and moments. Forces composition. Biomechanical applications.
Equilibrium conditions. Constraint reactions. Biomechanical applications.
Internal forces. Shear and moment digrams. Biomechanical applications.
Linear elasticity. Hooke’s law. Elastic properties of the materials. Stress and strain. Biomechanical applications.
Tensile-compressive loading, shear loading, flexural loading, torsional loading. Normal and tangential stresses produced by the various loading forces. Biomechanical applications.
Cyclical stresses. Fatigue of the materials.
Viscoelastic properties of the materials. Wear.
Cartilage lubrication.
Respiratory biomechanics.
Textbook Information
1. R. Pietrabissa: Biomateriali per protesi ed organi artificiali. Patron. Bologna, 1996. (consultation)
2. B.F. LeVeau: Biomeccanica del movimento umano. Verduci Ed., 1993. (consultation)
3. V. Pirola. Cinesiologia. Il movimento umano. II edizione. Edi-Ermes 2017. (consultation)
4. Course notes. (consultation)
Course Planning
| Subjects | Text References | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Forces, moments, equilibrium. | V. Pirola. Cinesiologia. Il movimento umano. II edizione. Edi-Ermes 2017. |
| 2 | Internal forces. | Teaching notes, Pirola, LeVeau. |
| 3 | Stress and strain. | Teaching notes, R. Pietrabissa. LeVeau. |
| 4 | Characteristics of the biomaterials and living tissues. | Teaching notes, R. Pietrabissa: Biomateriali per protesi ed organi artificiali. Patron. Bologna, 1996. |
| 5 | Friction and wear. | Teaching notes, R. Pietrabissa: Biomateriali per protesi ed organi artificiali. Patron. Bologna, 1996. |
| 6 | Cartilage lubrication. | Teaching notes. |
| 7 | Respiratory biomechanics. | Teaching notes. |
Learning Assessment
Learning Assessment Procedures
Oral exam. Elements to be evaluated: relevance of the answers, quality of their contents, ability to connect with other topics within the program, ability to report examples, quality of technical language, and overall expressive ability.
Examples of frequently asked questions and / or exercises
Monopodalic equilibrium with and without support.
Russel traction.
Wear and friction. Cartilage lubrication.
Fatigue of materials.
Simple viscoelastic models.
Forces and deformations. Elementary stresses and deformations.