2025Year

First Semester

Advanced Course of Biomechanics

Lecture

Advanced Course of Biomechanics

Z0200010 Advanced Course of Biomechanics

KIRIYAMA Yoshimori

2.0Credits

Mon.1Period

Shinjuku Remote

A) A high degree of specialized expertise　100%
B) The skills to use science and technology　0%
C) The ability to conduct research independently, knowledge pertaining to society and occupations, and sense of ethics required of engineers and researchers　0%
D) Creative skills in specific areas of specialization　0%

This course provides background in musculoskeletal system for human movements. Human can move their body unintentionally to achieve something with lower mechanical energy, e.g. gait. All kinds of such movements are not necessarily realized only by the precise controlling of the brain, but regulated by the rational principle of movements inside of the body. Elucidating the principle allows us to design some products for human, moreover to understand the mechanism of orthopedic disease and develop a treatment or prevention of them. Specific course topics include fundamentals of human movements and the musculoskeletal anatomy, and measurement and analytical method in order to obtain new knowledge.

After active participation in this course and an effort to learn the material, students will be able to:
(1) Analyze the anatomical system and principle of movements.
(2) Use basic knowledge and technique to measure human movements.
(3) Understand man-centered concept based on the human movements and anatomical system.

Students are required to review fundamental courses related to mechanical engineering. Also, some homework is based on numerical calculation, and then easy procedure to use programming language or spreadsheet calculation.

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Week1: Introduction of Human biomechanics
Week2: Kinematics and Kinetics of Human movements(1)
Week3: Kinematics and Kinetics of Human movements(2)
Week4: Physical property of human and basic motion measurement
Week5: Practical theory of measurements for human movements
Week6: Inverse dynamics of human
Week7: Kinetic energy and power
Week8: Neural control system of human
Week9: Fundamental of data processing
Week10: Fundamental of statistics
Week11: Orthopedic disease and the clinical evaluation
Week12: Ergonomics
Week13: Research design for human biomechanics
Week14: Reviewing of the course

Exercise in the class or assignment (40 pts or 40%), and final examination (60 pts or 60%) are required. The course unit will be acquired, when the total of them is more than 60 pts or Grade D.

Prior to the class, previous exercise is explained.

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- 12:40 to 13:30 on Wednesday on Shinjuku campus (BME-Bio3 laboratory (A-1774))
- Contact instructors by E-mail when you would like to fix a schedule to ask them.
contact: kiriyama(at)cc.kogakuin.ac.jp (replace (at) with @)

Engineers can learn and be inspired by living things. From an engineering point of view, engineers gain a wealth of knowledge that is useful in their research. This course hopes that through class participation and assignments, students will become aware of the relationship and differences with their own field of research.

Applicable

Motion analysis for healthy subjects or patients
Development of an apparatus or control system for cadaveric subjects
Data process based on statistics
Research Design of human biomechanics

Mechanical Engineering Program