Title of Course: Specialized Biomechanics
Exam number: XM 2830 (required course), XM 3120 (elective)
Length of course: 2 hours per week
Type of course: Lecture
Language: English
Lecturer: R. Wendlandt
Learning outcomes:
Basics of the finite-element-method. Skills for the practical creation of finite-element-models with the program ANSYS. Getting to know special problems concerning the modelling of biological objects so that the application of the finite-element- method for orthopaedic biomechanical problems becomes possible. Knowledge about lecturer´s current research projects
Course Requirements: Basic Biomechanics
Content:

• Basics of the Finite-Element-Analysis: coordinate systems, degrees of freedom, beam element, unit-form-function, shape description
• Practical work on ANSYS: Modelling: a simple beam model, a 2D model with different element types and mesh refinements, a volume model with geometric non-linearity, a volume model with contact elements
• FE-calculations on a femur: modelling the outer and inner 3D shape on the basis of CT scans, creating the hollow femur in Ansys, taking into consideration the inhomogeneous internal structure, modelling a situation which was tested experimentally, comparison of the calculated with experimental results, introduction into the necessity of local coordinate systems
  

Recommended Literature:

• Basic orthopaedic biomechanics & mechano-biology. 3rd Edition. (Ed.: V.C. Mow, R. Huiskes).. Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia, 2005
• Finite elements: theory, fast solvers, and applications in solid mechanics. 2nd ed. Dietrich Braess. Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2001
• Finite elements in biomechanics [First International Conference on Finite Elements in Biomechanics, 18 - 20 February 1980] Richard H. Gallagher. Chichester [u.a.] : Wiley, 1982
• Finite Elemente: eine Einführung für Ingenieure. Klaus Knothe. - 4., erw. Aufl. Berlin [u.a.] : Springer, 2008

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