Courses – Fakultet tehničkih nauka u Novom Sadu

Subject: Biomedical mechanics (17.DM801)

Native organizations units: Chair of Machine Elements, Machine and Mechanism Theory and Mechanical Engineering in Agriculture

Type of studies	Title
Doctoral Academic Studies	Mechanical Engineering (Godina: 2, Winter)

General information:

Category	Scientific-professional
Scientific or art field	Mechanics
Interdisciplinary	Yes
ECTS	10

Educational goal:

Comprehension of development, widening and application of mechanics in the framework of biomedical systems for understanding physiological and pathological states as well as changes from the one state to another one in order to obtain better diagnosis and treatments for injury and disease.

Educational outcome:

Analysis of problems which include forces, motion and deformation under load in the sense of weakly defined systems but of very complex forms and functions, for the development of models which will enable more individual medical treatment, which will be more dependent on the state of the patient.

Course content:

States, , state properties, changes of states, equations which describe changes of states of biomedical systems. External forces, the motion of a human body through space. Internal forces in human body. Rheological properties of structures of a skeletal, muscular and nervous system. Rheological properties of a physiological and pathological tissues as well as tissues for restoration. Rheological properties of blood and its rule in transport of mass and heat. Laws of motion, balance of mass and energy. Metabolism: energy, heat, work and power of a human body. Compartmental analysis and regulation. Pharmacokinetics. Numerical solving of PDE. Biomechanics of a joints. Usage of prosthetic devices. Nervous system as initiator of body movement. Biomechanical models and analysis of cardiovascular system diseases.

Teaching methods:

Lectures, study research work and consultations. The lectures provide a theoretical part of the material using modern equipment and information and communication technologies. Through lectures, a student acquires and mastered contemporary scientific knowledge, scientific methods and procedures that enable him to become independent research work. In addition to lectures, consultations are also held regularly. Study research work includes all forms of teaching that are in the function of directly training a student for research, writing scientific papers and making a doctoral dissertation. Study research work includes active monitoring of primary scientific sources, organization and execution of numerical simulations and experimental research.

Literature:

Authors	Title	Year	Publisher	Language
N. Ayache (ed.)	Computational models for the human body	2001	Elsevier, Amsterdam	English
Irving Herman	Physics of human body	2007	Springer	English
K. R. Sharma	Transport Phenomena in Biomedical Engineering - Artificial Organ Design and Development and Tissue Engineering	2010	McGrawHill	English
Aydin Tӧzeren	Human body dynamics	2000	Springer	English
J. D. Humphrey	Cardiovascular solid mechanics, cells tissues, and organs	1999	Springer, New York	English