Talk:Biomechanics

Broaden the entry

I think that the entry for biomechanics needs to be substantially broadened. Currently, there is a lot of interesting information, but it seems relly human-centric. The field has practitioners working on plants, on insect flight, on marine filter feeders in addition to the large contingent working on human locomotion and fluid systems. I agree with the suggestion that it needs a more general introduction that can encompass these things, and the rest can be subdivided. mooseo 21:55, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

I'm suspicious of this tensegrity stuff. Biomechanics is a real academic discipline with meetings and text books and courses named Biomechanics 101 etc. I doubt Buckminster Fuller comes up in that context. But I'll leave it to someone who's actually studied biomechanics to cull or delineate the material that doesn't pertain to what biologists and exercise physiologists mean by biomechanics.

I'm not sure where the tensegrity connection is. Perhaps the editor meant that tissues remodel in response to applied loads? Growth and remodeling is supported by recent investigations in the open literature. Besides that, I propose that more attention be given to the continuum level solid/fluid mechanics and computational modeling of tissue behavior. It is a rather gross oversimplification to limit the article to limbs and the kinematics of entire organisms.

Wikipedia version 1.0 compliance

Our goal should be to make this article comply with Wikipedia version 1.0 standards.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team

There is a decent amount of material, but it looks a bit disorganized. I tried to rearrange a few things last night and add some content, but it still needs more work. In particular, the introduction will need to be more general and touch on more areas. We can save the nitty gritty math and physiology details for subheadings for the people who are really interested in that stuff.

Cleanup

I just added the cleanup template to the article. It has some good stuff, but a lot of the sections belong as articles (and many already are). This article should focus on the core of "Biomechanics" and let other articles talk about continuum mechanics or non-Newtonian fluids. —Ben FrantzDale 01:42, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

"Biomechanics" in fiction

Should something be added about "biomechanical" often referring to creatures that are a combination of organic and mechanical in science fiction? urutapu 05:39, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

I don't really think so. I'm not a major sci-fi fan, but I was under the impression that was usually referred to as a Cyborg, which already has a pretty extensive entry. As someone mentioned above, biomechanics is an actual academic discipline mooseo 21:50, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Actually, "biomechanical" refers to organic objects that have a mechanical or semi-mechanical appearance, such as the derelict and the Aliens, both of which were designed by H.R. Giger. The closest page to "Biomechanics in fiction" currently available would have to be the Biomechanoid page.--Jesse Mulkey 16:20, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Somebody messed around with the page

"Biomechanics is the research and analysis of man and living organisms "

removed vulgarities --Venny85 18:33, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

"understanding of performance in athletic events through modeling, simulation, stimulation, gesticulation, mastication and measurement. and jamie annandale is cool" - removed "and jamie annandale is cool". 216.167.172.78 (talk) 06:54, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

Meyerhold's Biomechanics (Theatre)

There is no page for that experimental theatrical concept. It needs an article created about it and should be added to the disambiguation page. 216.167.172.78 (talk) 06:57, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

Proposed project of interest - organismal biomechanics

Hi all, I'm trying to start a Wikiproject to cover Organismal Biomechanics, and I was wondering if anyone else would be interested? Articles such as animal locomotion. gait, muscle, and similar would be our targets. See my userpage for a list of what I'm planning to work on, including some truly awful articles in desperate need of attention. See proposal page at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Proposals#Wikiproject_Organismal_Biomechanics. I'll keep anyone who signs up updated via their userpages until I get a project page made. Help of all kinds is appreciated, from brain dumps to wikifying, grammar and dealing with references. Mokele (talk) 01:38, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Section on journals & societies?

I was just thinking, should there be a section on this page for journals & societies that frequently publish biomechanics? Some are obvious from the name, like the Journal of Biomechanics, but others are less so - Journal of Experimental Biology and Integrative & Comparative Biology both publish a lot of comparative biomech stuff. Mokele (talk) 16:51, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

History

Seems the article is remiss not to mention Bert Fung's contribution to the field. I would consider him a pioneer. GetAgrippa (talk) 03:05, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

You're welcome to include this information in the article! --Rudolf Hellmuth (talk) 08:49, 8 November 2010 (UTC)