Tissue biomechanics

Tissue biomechanics

This topic involves following sub-topics:

• Harmonic oscillator (simple)
• Driven harmonic oscillator
• Elasticity
• Hook’s law
• Elastic properties of tissues
• Young’s modulus
• Elasticity and stiffness on subcellular level: role of collagen, elastin and intercellular matrix
• Mechanical characteristic of muscle, connective tissue, bone and bone connection
• Tissue replacement from mechanical point of view