Abstract: The effects of the musculature of the back and the bending stiffness of the spine are considered in a model for spinal column response to lateral deceleration. It is found that the effect ...

Abstract: A simplified model of the mechanical properties of muscle and of the musculoskeletal geometry was used to predict torques at the shoulder and elbow during arm movements in the sagittal plane. ...

Abstract: A displacement bounding principle for continua loaded into the plastic range is presented. Use is made of Drucker’s inequality and the existence of a maximum complimentary work path between any ...

Abstract: Simplified governing equations for line length, velocity, and lure hydrodynamic characteristics are used to determine the depth at which a lure runs in typical noncommercial fishing. The hydrodynamic ...

Abstract: In a companion paper to the present, a model is derived to predict human reflex motion. This model contains a set of seven neuromuscular parameters which are evaluated in the present paper ...

Abstract: Most current knowledge concerning the mechanical behavior of skeletal muscle has been obtained from experiments in which the muscle is impulsively activated (twitch) or maximally activated (tetanus). ...