• Source: Biomechanical engineering

Biomechanical engineering, also considered a subfield of mechanical engineering and biomedical engineering, combines principles of physics (with a focus on mechanics), biology, and engineering. Topics of interest in this field include (experimental and theoretical) biomechanics, computational mechanics, continuum mechanics, bioinstrumentation, design of implants and prostheses, etc. This is a highly multidisciplinary field, and engineers with such a background may enter related niche careers, e.g., as an ergonomics consultant, rehabilitation engineer, biomechanics researcher, and biomedical device engineer.
Biomechanical engineers can be seen as mechanical engineers that work in a biomedical context. This is not only due to occasionally mechanical nature of medical devices, but also mechanical engineering tools (such as numerical software packages) are commonly used in analysis of biological materials and biomaterials due to the high importance of their mechanical properties. Some research examples are computer simulation of the osteoarthritis, patient-specific evaluation of cranial implants for virtual surgical planning, computed tomography analysis for clinical assessment of osteoporosis, to name a few.




Application domains and related areas


Core applications:

Design, manufacturing, and maintenance of biomechanical devices (e.g., implants)
Occupational biomechanics
Orthopedic biomechanics
Cardiovascular biomechanics
Dental biomechanics
Plant biomechanics
Tissue mechanics
Mechanobiology
Forensic biomechanics
Also, contributing extensively to:

Biomaterials and tissue engineering
Biomechatronics and biorobotics
In silico medicine
Sports engineering
Digital twin
Bionics




Research Groups


Some examples of the research groups and departments:

Delft University of Technology
Georgia Institute of Technology
Iran University of Science and Technology
University of Twente
Stanford University




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