Biomechanics: Mechanical Properties of Living Tissues, 2nd ed.

This book is the second edition of the first volume in a series of three volumes by Y. C. Fung on biomechanics. The first edition was published in 1981. The second volume in the series was Biodynamics: Circulation (1984) and the third was Biomechanics: Motion, Flow, Stress, and Growth (1990). In these three books Professor Fung describes the constitutive behavior of biological tissues, the functional mechanics of the body's organs and related engineering problems. The series of three volumes summarizes the application of an enormously wide spectrum of mechanics and thermodynamics to physiology and the engineering of biologically related problems. The mechanics applied includes rigid-body mechanics, mechanical vibration theory, viscous and perfect fluid theory, linear and nonlinear elasticity and viscoelasticity, wave propagation in fluid and solid media, multiphase mixture theory, chemical thermodynamics, and numerous subtopics of mechanics. The problems addressed cover the spectrum from birds flying and fish swimming to oxygen transport, human impact tolerance, cell behavior, and the engineering of activities at the cellular level.