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Biomechanics

Prof. Varadhan SKM · IIT Madras

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Lectures

week-01

  1. Introduction to forces - Resolving forces, principle of transmissibility Video
  2. Statics FBD and EOE Video
  3. Example problems on FBD and EOE Video
  4. Joints in human body Video
  5. Machines and mechanical advantage Video
  6. Levers and types of levers Video
  7. Insertion point and torque Video
  8. Practice problem 1 Video
  9. Practice problem 2 Video

week-02

  1. Key terminologies Video
  2. Anatomical planes and axis Video
  3. Sagittal plane movements Video
  4. Coronal plane movements Video
  5. Transverse plane movements Video
  6. Muscles - Muscle fascicles Video
  7. Muscle fibers- Pennation angle Video
  8. More on pennation angle Video
  9. Excitation contraction coupling Video

week-03

  1. Sliding filament theory Video
  2. Force length relationship Video
  3. Shoulder joints and muscles Video
  4. Shoulder problem 1 Video
  5. Shoulder problem 2 Video
  6. Elbow theory Video
  7. Elbow problem 1 Video
  8. Elbow problem 2 Video

week-04

  1. Elbow problem 3 Video
  2. Wrist theory Video
  3. Finger theory Video
  4. Finger muscles Video
  5. Spine anatomy and movements Video
  6. Spine muscles Video
  7. Spine problem Video

week-05

  1. Hip anatomy and movements Video
  2. Hip muscles Video
  3. Hip problem Video
  4. Knee anatomy and movements Video
  5. Knee muscles Video
  6. Knee problem Video
  7. Ankle anatomy and movements Video
  8. Ankle muscles Video
  9. Ankle problem Video

week-06

  1. Grasping- reaching- chains Video
  2. D.O.F mobility, open/closed chain Video
  3. Forward kinematics and workspace Video
  4. 2R inverse kinematics Video
  5. 3R kinematics forward and inverse Video
  6. D-H parameters Video
  7. Velocity and jacobian Video
  8. 3R velocity Video

week-07

  1. Tissues and types of tissues Video
  2. Bone microstructure and cells Video
  3. Properties of bones Video
  4. Wolffs Law and Hookean behavior Video
  5. Elastic properties and stress strain relations Video
  6. Stress strain curve and mechanical properties of biological materials Video
  7. Bending of Bones Video

week-08

  1. Viscolelastic modelling Video
  2. Maxwell Model Video
  3. Voight Model Video
  4. Kelvin model Video
  5. Viscoelasticity in bones Video

week-09

  1. Tissues and its constituents Video
  2. Cartilages, ligaments and tendons Video
  3. Stress strain relations in tendons Video
  4. Tendon forces and factors affecting tendon property Video
  5. Gliding resistance, tendon wrapping and friction forces Video
  6. Enslaving - Intertendinuos force transfer and motor units Video

week-10

  1. Introduction to enslavement Video
  2. Enslaving effects in finger force production -1 Video
  3. Enslaving effects in finger force production -2 Video
  4. Wrist posture and finger interdependence -1 Video
  5. Wrist posture and finger interdependence -2 Video
  6. Wrist posture and finger interdependence -3 Video

week-11

  1. Measurement of orientation in 3D space - Devices Video
  2. Rotation matrices in 2D and 3D2 Video
  3. Animating using rotation matrices- Matlab Examples Video
  4. Composite rotation matrix and relative orientations Video
  5. Complex numbers and quaternions Video

week-12

  1. Singularity, Gimbal Lock, Advantages and disadvantages of parameterization methods Video
  2. Single finger kinematics measurement using IMU's Video
  3. IMU based Full hand kinematics measurement system (HKMS) Video
  4. Demonstration of the Hand Kinematics Measurement System (HKMS) Video
  5. Introduction to Gait and running Video

Syllabus and materials

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Credits and licence

Institution
IIT Madras
Department
Biotechnology
Teacher
Prof. Varadhan SKM
Level
Undergraduate
Language
English
Subjects
Biology
Source
NPTEL
Licence
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