Course Description
This course covers topics ranging from multi-body systems to stress superposition to failure criteria to prepare students for the more advanced subjects of biomechanics and rehabilitation engineering. Topics include the following: Free-body diagrams, Multibody statics and dynamics, Linkage kinematics and kinetics, Anthropometric kinematics, Stress/strain/torsion, Beam bending, Stress superposition, Constitutive relationship, Strain gauges, Finite-element analysis, Failure analysis, Failure mechanisms.
Spring 2026
Instructors
Meeting Patterns
Classes Start:
January 12, 2026
Classes End:
April 28, 2026
Location:
04142 Engineering Building 3
Class Days:
M W
Class Start Time:
8:30am
Class End Time:
9:45am
Class Type:
Lecture
Credits:
3.00
Restrictions:
P: BME 201 and (BM[M]E 205 OR BM[M]E 215 OR MAE 208 OR BMME 160) and (BM[M]E 209 or BM[M]E 219 OR MSE 201 OR BMME 150)