ABSTRACT
While biomechanics is simply mechanics, and while mechanics can be a relatively simple subject (at least conceptually), the application with living systems is usually far from simple. Fabricated and inert systems are much less complex than living systems (or biosystems). With biosystems, the geometry is irregular and not easily represented by elementary gures or shapes. With biosystems, the material properties are inhomogeneous, anisotropic, and nonlinear. Indeed, biosystems are composed of solids, liquids, and gases with nonlinear viscoelastic and non-Newtonian characteristics. Biosystems present students and researchers with an uncountable number of challenging problems in modeling, simulation, and analysis. The aim of this book is to provide methods for simplifying and solving these problems.
