This book is a compendium of papers contributed by Y C Fung, Honorary Chairman of the World Council for Biomechanics, on the development of biomechanics in the past 30 years. Most of the articles are records of original contributions scattered in many journals. Having these papers collected together, classified according to subjects, and arranged in chronological order for each subject, will help the reader to obtain a total perspective of his work and his association with his colleagues. The selection ranges from constitutive equations, microcirculation, heart, lung, blood vessels, ureter and other internal organs, and tissue engineering. Several summary articles provide a fascinating guide to the evolution of ideas over this period of time. His work done in the field of aeroelasticity predates his biomechanics work. The applications of some general ideas of aeroelasticity are broader than the specific topics discussed, as exemplified by the sharing of ideas between aeronautics and biology.
This valuable title will be of interest to anyone concerned with bioengineering and aeronautics, and should have a place in the library of people who are just starting their career as well as those who are well into it.
Contents:
- Biomechanics:
- Perspectives and Summaries
- Microcirculation
- Constitutive Equations
- The Lung
- The Heart
- Smooth Muscle Controlled Flow
- The Blood Vessel
- Tissue Engineering
- Aeroelasticity
Readership: Bioengineers, aeronautical engineers, mechanical engineers, cardiologists and orthopaedic surgeons.
“Yuan-Cheng Fung is unquestionably one of the top few living persons in the world in terms of his contributions to mechanics … Many in the field consider him to be the Father of Modern Biomechanics. It is therefore greatly welcomed that the best papers that Y-C Fung published in biomechanics and aeroelasticity should be collected … Long-time researchers in biomechanics will want to have these two volumes for the wealth of material they contain.”
Applied Mechanics Review
Dr Yuan-Cheng Bertram Fung is a member of the US National Academy of Science, a senior member of the US Institute of Medicine of NAS, a member of the US National Academy of Engineering, a member of Academic Sinica, a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Science, and Honorary Professor of 15 universities in China. He received his BS and MS in 1941 and 1943 from the National Central University, China, and his PhD from the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, in 1948. He is the author of the following books: An Introduction to the Theory of Aeroelasticity (Wiley, 1956; Dover, 1969, 1993), Foundation of Solid Mechanics (Prentice Hall, 1965), A First Course in Continuum Mechanics (Prentice Hall, 1969; second ed., 1976; third ed., 1993), as well as Biomechanics: Mechanical Properties of Living Tissues (1981; second ed., 1993), Biomechanics: Circulation (1984; second ed., 1996), and Biomechanics: Motion, Flow, Stress and Growth (1990), all published by Springer Verlag, and two books in Chinese, Biomechanics (Science Press, 1983), and Essays on Bioengineering (Chongqing Univ. Press, 1979). He is also author of more than 300 journal publications. Dr Fung was given the Eugene Landis Award by the Microcirculatory Society (1975), the Theodore Von Kármán Medal by the American Society of Civil Engineers (1976), the Lissner Award (1978), the Timoshenko Medal (1991), Melville Medal (1994), and Honorary Membership (1996) by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He received also the Poiseuille Medal (1986) of the International Society of Biorheology, the ALZA Award (1989) of the Biomedical Engineering Society, the Borelli Award (1992) of American Society of Biomechanics, and many other honors.
