Biomechanics and Mechanobiology

Course guarantor:

Lukáš Horný

Lecturer:

Matej Daniel, Lukáš Horný

Tutor:

Matej Daniel, Lukáš Horný

Synopsis:

The Biomechanics and Mechanobiology course introduces the study of biomechanics as a description of the movement of living matter at all levels of the human body (from molecules, to tissues and organs, to the movement of the body itself) and expands biomechanics to include an explanation of the processes that maintain physiological homeostasis such as remodeling and adaptation. The causes of selected diseases are also explained from this perspective.

Requirements:

Syllabus of lectures:

1. Biomechanics: motion at all scales

2. Biomechanics of cell

3. Tissues

4. Muscle contraction and its mathematical description

5. Load carrying tissues

6. Continuum mechanics (strain and stress)

7. Constitutive description of tissues

8. Adaptation and remodeling

9. Bone as an example

10. Biomechanics of the circulatory system

11. Mechanobiology of the blood vessels

12. Inflammation

13. Pathobiomechanics of the circulation

Syllabus of tutorials:

Study Objective:

Study materials:

Taber LA (2020) Continuum Modeling in Mechanobiology. Springer Cham.

Pivonka P (2018) Multiscale Mechanobiology of Bone Remodeling and Adaptation. Springer Cham.

Note:

Time-table for winter semester 2024/2025:

	06:00–08:0008:00–10:0010:00–12:0012:00–14:0014:00–16:0016:00–18:0018:00–20:0020:00–22:0022:00–24:00
Mon
Tue
Wed	roomT4:A2-259 Horný L. Daniel M. 16:00–17:30 (lecture parallel1) Dejvice roomT4:A2-259 Horný L. Daniel M. 17:45–18:30 (lecture parallel1 parallel nr.101) Dejvice
Thu
Fri

Time-table for summer semester 2024/2025:

Time-table is not available yet

The course is a part of the following study plans: