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BIOMEKANIKA
BUDI ARIFVIANTO
DEPARTMEN TEKNIK MESIN DAN INDUSTRI FT UGM
BASIC MECHANICS

• Force
• Moment/torque
• Newton’s law of mechanics
• Work and energy
• Etc.
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 MEDICAL DEVICES, THEIR APPLICATIONS AND
BIOMATERIALS
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MECHANICS AND BIOMECHANICS

• Mechanics is a branch of physics that is

concerned with the motion and
deformation of bodies that are acted on by
mechanical disturbances called forces.
• Engineering mechanics or applied
mechanics is the science of applying the
principles of mechanics.
• Biomechanics combines the field of
engineering mechanics with the fields of
biology and physiology.
 SKELETAL JOINTS

• Joints or articulations
• To provide mobility to the
musculoskeletal system
• Possess degrees of stability,
depending on their functions

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EXAMPLES OF JOINTS: SHOULDER JOINT

• Ball-and-socket joint
• Enables arm to move in all three planes
(triaxial motion)
• High level of mobility
• But, reduced stability; increasing
vulnerability of the joint to injuries, e.g.
dislocation

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EXAMPLES OF JOINTS: ELBOW JOINT

• Hinge-type joint
• Provide movement primarily in one
plane (uniaxial motion)
• More stable and less prone to injuries
than the shoulder joint

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TYPES OF JOINTS

• Synarthrodial joints
• Amphiarthrodial joints
• Diarthrodial joints

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 SYNARTHRODIAL JOINTS

• Example: joints of the skull

• Formed by two tightly fitting bones
• Not allowing any relative motion of the
bones forming them

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AMPHIARTHRODIAL JOINTS

• Example: joints between the vertebrae

• Allowing slight relative motions
• Featured by an intervening substance (a
cartilaginous or ligamentous tissue)
whose presence eliminates direct bone-
to-bone contact.
DIARTHRODIAL JOINTS

• Permit varying degrees of relative

motion
• Have articular cavities, ligamentous
capsules, synovial membranes, and
synovial fluid
• The articular cavity is the space
between the articulating bones.
• The ligamentous capsule holds the
articulating bones together.
SYNOVIAL FLUID

• Synovial fluid: viscous material

• to reduce friction and wear and prevent the
articulating surfaces from tear of by limiting
direct contact between them
• to nourish the articular cartilage lining
• The synovial membrane is the internal lining of
the ligamentous capsule enclosing the
synovial fluid which serves as a lubricant.

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ARTICULAR CARTILAGE

• A specialized tissue designed to increase

load distribution on the joints
• Providing a wear-resistant surface that
absorbs shock.
ANOTHER
CATEGORIZATION OF
DIARTHRODIAL JOINTS
Various diarthrodial joints can be further
categorized as:
• gliding (for example, vertebral facets)
• hinge (elbow and ankle)
• pivot (proximal radioulnar)
• condyloid (wrist)
• saddle (carpometacarpal of thumb)
• ball-and-socket (shoulder and hip)
SKELETAL MUSCLES

Types of muscles:
• Cardiac muscle
• Smooth muscle
• Skeletal muscle

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CARDIAC MUSCLE

Cardiac muscle is the contractive

tissue found in the heart that pumps
the blood for circulation.
SMOOTH MUSCLE

Smooth muscle is found in the

stomach, intestinal tracts, and the
walls of blood vessels.
SKELETAL MUSCLE

• connected to the bones of the

body
• when contracted, causes body
segments to move
• Movement of human body
segments is achieved as a result
of forces generated by skeletal
muscles that convert chemical
energy into mechanical work.
• Myofibrils: made up of actin and
myosin filaments.
SKELETAL MUSCLE

• Elastic: stretched and released it will

resume its original (unstretched) size and
shape
• Viscous: an internal resistance to motion
• Muscles exhibit viscoelastic material
behavior.
• A skeletal muscle is attached, via soft
tissues such as aponeuroses and/or
tendons
• When its fibers contract under the
stimulation of a nerve, the muscle exerts
a pulling effect on the bones to which it is
attached.
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BASIC CONSIDERATIONS IN
BIOMECHANICS
The forces involved in the human body:
• Internal forces
• those associated with muscles, ligaments, and
tendons, and at the joints.

• Externally applied forces:

• gravitational acceleration,
• manually and/or mechanically applied forces on https://www.quora.com/
the body during exercise and stretching,
• forces applied to the body by prostheses and
implements.
• The unknowns in static problems:
• the joint reaction forces
• muscle tensions.

• Mechanical analysis of a joint requires vector

characteristics of tension in the muscle:
• the proper locations of muscle attachments,
• the weights or masses of body segments,
• the centers of gravity of the body segments, and
• the anatomical axis of rotation of the joint.

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Basic Assumptions and Limitations

• Statically determinate

• Equations of equilibrium

• Only the muscle group that is the primary

source of control over the joint can be taken
into consideration
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• Possible contributions of other muscle groups
to the load-bearing mechanism of the joint
must be ignored.
ASSUMPTIONS

• The anatomical axes of rotation of joints are known.

• The locations of muscle attachments are known.
• The line of action of muscle tension is known.
• Segmental weights and their centers of gravity are known.
• Frictional factors at the joints are negligible.
• Dynamic aspects of the problems will be ignored.
• Only two-dimensional problems will be considered.

These analyses require that the anthropometric data about the segment to be analyzed
must be available. For this purpose, there are tables listing anthropometric information
including average weights, lengths, and centers of gravity of body segments.
 Example:
Mechanics of the Elbow
ANATOMY OF THE
ELBOW

Three separate articulations:

• Humeroulnar joint:
• hinge (ginglymus) joint
• the articulation between the spool-shaped trochlea of the distal
humerus and the concave trochlear fossa of the proximal ulna.
• Humeroradial joint
• hinge joint
• between the capitulum of the distal humerus and the head of the radius.
• Proximal radioulnar
• pivot joint
• the head of the radius and the radial notch of the proximal ulna.
MUSCLES IN THE ELBOW

• The biceps brachii muscle

• powerful flexor of the elbow joint
• particularly when the elbow joint is in a supinated position
• On the distal side, the biceps is attached to the
tuberosity of the radius
• On the proximal side, it has attachments at the top of
the coracoids process and upper lip of the glenoid
fossa.
• The triceps brachii muscle
• The most important muscle controlling the extension
movement of the elbow is.
 UPPER LIMB MOVEMENTS

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INJURIES OF THE ELBOW

• Common injuries of the elbow: fractures and dislocations.

• Fractures usually occur at the epicondyles of the humerus and the olecranon process of
the ulna.
• Overuse, which causes an inflammatory process of the tendons of an elbow that has
been damaged by repetitive motions. These include tennis elbow and golfer’s elbow
syndromes.
 FORCES ACTING ON THE FOREARM

• Point O: the axis of rotation of the elbow joint

• Point A: the attachment of the biceps muscle on the radius

• Point B: the center of gravity of the forearm

• Point C: a point on the forearm that lies along a vertical line passing through the center of gravity of the weight in the hand.

• FM: the magnitude of the force exerted by the biceps on the radius

• FJ: the magnitude of the reaction force at the elbow joint.

 FORCES ACTING ON THE FOREARM

Assumptions:
• the biceps is the major
flexor
• the line of action of the
tension (line of pull) in
the biceps is vertical.

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𝐹 = 𝑏𝑊 + 𝑐𝑊 𝐹 =𝐹 −𝑊−𝑊
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 REMARKS

• The biceps muscle is about ten times larger than the weight
of the object
• the length a of the lever arm of the muscle force is much
smaller than the length c;The smaller the lever arm, the
• greater the muscle tension required to balance the clockwise
rotational effect of the load about the elbow joint.
• disadvantageous to have a muscle attachment close to the
elbow joint. However, the closer the muscle is to the joint,
the larger the range of motion of elbow flexion– extension,
and the faster the distal end (hand) of the forearm can reach
its goal of moving toward the upper arm or the shoulder.