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Introduction
Biomechanical engineering is a bioengineering discipline,
Areas of application
The main areas of application of biomechanical
Sports Biomechanics
Sports biomechanics is a quantitative based study and analysis of
3D Motion capture
It is the process of recording the movements of objects or people.The
performer or the athlete has to wear markers near each joint to identify
the motion by the positions or angles between the markers. Most
modern systems can extract the silhouette of the performer from the
background. Afterwards all joint angles are calculated by fitting in a
mathematic model into the silhouette.
Force plates
Force platforms or Force plates are measuring
Strain gauge
A strain gauge is a device used to measure
Strain on an object.the gauge is attached to
the object by a suitable adhesive,such as
Cyanoacrylate.As the object is deformed,the
foil is deformed,causing its electrical
resistance to change.The resistance change is
Related to strain by a quantity known as
the gauge factor.
Surface Electromyography
Electromyography is an electrodiagnostic medicine techique for
evaluating and recording the electrical activity produced by skeletal
muscles.An electromyograph detects the electric potential generated by
muscle cells when these cells are elctrically or neurologically
activated.The signals can be analyzed to detect medical
abnormalities,activation level or recruitment order,or to analyze the
biomechanics of human or animal movement.
Bionic limbs
Bionic limbs uses 3 extreme engineering interfaces:Mechanical-how the limbs are attached.
Dynamic-How they move like flesh and bone.
Electrical-how they communicate with the nervous
system.
Biomechatronic Hand
It is an interdisciplinary field encompassing biology, neurosciences, mechanics,
electronics and robotics. Biomechatronic scientists attempt to make devices that interact
with human muscle, skeleton, and nervous systems with the goals of assisting or
enhancing human motor control that can be lost or impaired by trauma, disease or birth
defects.
Hand prototype
final hand
Visual prosthesis
A visual prosthesis,often referred to as a bionic eye,is an experimental visual
Robotics
Biorobotics is a term that covers the fields of cybernetics,bionics and even genetic
Forensic Applications
Biomechanical engineering is applied to forensic jobs such as accident
Forensic applications
Ballistics: Ballistic trauma and damage result from the transfer of kinetic
energy from a projectile to the body or target, which depends on the firearm,
the load, the geometry of the projectile, and how the projectile interacts with
the target.biomechanical engineering reconstructs incidents involving injuries
from small arms and conducts research on specific terminal ballistics
performance or personal protection equipment for domestic, law enforcement,
and military applications.
Forensic Applications
Injury Causation: Many types of incidents, including low-speed vehicle impacts,
rapid elevator or escalator stops, and slips, trips and falls, result in injury claims
that may or may not be attributable to the incident. In order to determine whether
a claimed injury occurred as a result of a specific incident, biomechanical
engineering analyzes the mechanism required to cause the injury traumatically and
investigates whether that mechanism was present in the subject incident.
Common questions regarding injury causation can be answered through
biomechanics:
How does the diagnosed pathology occur traumatically and under what loading
conditions?
Was the necessary injury mechanism present in this accident?
Is the loading sufficient, relative to established tolerances, to produce significant
potential for injury?
Medical applications
Regenerative medicine:Regenerative medicine is a branch of translational
Bioheat Transfer
Bioheat transfer is the study of heat transfer in biological systems.in