BME 4410 - Advanced Biomechanics

2 lecture hours 2 lab hours 3 credits

Course Description
This course presents engineering tools, techniques, and concepts employed in biomechanics applications and research in a number of fields, with an overview of the major challenges in movement biomechanics. The course starts with in-depth talks covering digital signal processing techniques of electromyography signals. Studies merging the knowledge of medical imaging and biomechanical properties are illustrated through ultrasound imaging. The course then discusses analysis of musculoskeletal injuries and disorders and how to diagnose them quantitatively. Several prosthetic device designs as reported in the literature will be discussed and some will be modelled using the tools learnt though the course. Course goals will be achieved through lectures, homework problems, the motion capture laboratory, simulation exercises, and student research projects and presentations.
Prereq: BME 3410 (quarter system prereq: BE 411)
Note: None
This course meets the following Raider Core CLO Requirement: None

Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

Define the design and behavior of the instrumentation, transducers, force plates, etc. used to collect and process human movement data
Develop FEM models from anthropometric and biomechanical data
Obtain inverse solutions of joint moments and reaction forces from kinematic and force plate data
Design and conduct a human-movement based experiment to test a biomechanical problem and draw scientific conclusions
Set up complex biomechanics problems and solve them using a multidisciplinary approach; design of a simple prosthetic device
Obtain knowledge of state-of-the-art solutions through peer-reviewed journals, conference proceedings, and vendor websites, to analyze and solve contemporary open-ended problems

Prerequisites by Topic

Body movements and terminology
Anthropometry
Joint biomechanics and joint stability
Principles and use of electromyography
Kinematics and kinetics

Course Topics

EMG signal processing: time and frequency domain
Medical imaging in biomechanics: strain imaging
Musculoskeletal injuries: quantitative analysis
Viscoelasticity and viscoelastic models
Computational modeling: finite element modeling
Prosthetic engineering design principles

Laboratory Topics

Strain imaging: ultrasound imaging under compression
Studying viscoelastic behavior (ex.: creep) of a biological material (mechanical tester)
Study of possible injuries in sports biomechanics: baseball swing
Study of possible injuries in sports biomechanics: golf swing
Modeling case study: biomechanical model of the human body in MATLAB
Modeling case study: finite element model of a human prosthesis

Coordinator
Dr. Ahmed Sayed

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