Download or read book Mechanics of Terrestrial Locomotion written by Klaus Zimmermann and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-06-12 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text on artificial locomotion systems includes video files of prototypes of wheeled and worm-like locomotion systems, E-learning software on the mechanical background, and MAPLE programs for the dynamic solution of locomotion systems.
Download or read book Understanding Mammalian Locomotion written by John E. A. Bertram and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-01-22 with total page 571 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding Mammalian Locomotion will formally introduce the emerging perspective of collision dynamics in mammalian terrestrial locomotion and explain how it influences the interpretation of form and functional capabilities. The objective is to bring the reader interested in the function and mechanics of mammalian terrestrial locomotion to a sophisticated conceptual understanding of the relevant mechanics and the current debate ongoing in the field.
Download or read book Physiological Aspects of Legged Terrestrial Locomotion written by Giovanni Cavagna and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-02-12 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a succinct but comprehensive description of the mechanics of muscle contraction and legged terrestrial locomotion. It describes on the one hand how the fundamental properties of muscle tissue affect the mechanics of locomotion, and on the other, how the mechanics of locomotion modify the mechanism of muscle operation under different conditions. Further, the book reports on the design and results of experiments conducted with two goals. The first was to describe the physiological function of muscle tissue (which may be considered as the “motor”) contracting at a constant length, during shortening, during lengthening, and under a condition that occurs most frequently in the back-and-forth movement of the limbs during locomotion, namely the stretch-shortening cycle of the active muscle. The second objective was to analyze the interaction between the motor and the “machine” (the skeletal lever system) during walking and running in different scenarios with respect to speed, step frequency, body mass, gravity, age, and pathological gait. The book will be of considerable interest to physiology, biology and physics students, and provides researchers with stimuli for further experimental and analytical work.
Download or read book The Mechanics of Terrestrial Locomotion and the Function and Evolutionary History of Head bobbing in Birds written by Jennifer Ann Hancock and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Animal Locomotion written by Malcolm S. Gordon and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-05-25 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Animal Locomotion: Physical Principles and Adaptations is a professional-level, state of the art review and reference summarizing the current understanding of macroscopic metazoan animal movement. The comparative biophysics, biomechanics and bioengineering of swimming, flying and terrestrial locomotion are placed in contemporary frameworks of biodiversity, evolutionary process, and modern research methods, including mathematical analysis. The intended primary audience is advanced-level students and researchers primarily interested in and trained in mathematics, physical sciences and engineering. Although not encyclopedic in its coverage, anyone interested in organismal biology, functional morphology, organ systems and ecological physiology, physiological ecology, molecular biology, molecular genetics and systems biology should find this book useful.
Download or read book Mechanics and Energetics of Animal Locomotion written by R. McNeill Alexander and published by Chapman & Hall. This book was released on 1977 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mechanical and Energetic Constraints in Terrestrial Locomotion written by Claire Todd Farley and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Animal Mechanism written by Etienne-Jules Marey and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Energetics and Mechanics of Swing Phase During Terrestrial Locomotion written by Frank E. Nelson and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previous attempts to understand the factors affecting the energetic cost of locomotion have found a direct link between the energetic cost and the mechanical work done during periods when the limb is in contact with the ground. However, when the limb is not in contact with the ground during the swing phase, this link between mechanical work and energetic cost disappears. I examined the mechanics of swing to explore the possibility of passive mechanisms allowing for the performance of mechanical work with little to no energetic cost during swing. Previous studies have ruled out the possibility of a pendulum exchange of gravitational potential and kinetic energy during human locomotion because the swing frequencies are too high. I added the accelerations of the body during stance to the swinging lower limb to determine if the frequency where the pendulum-like exchange of energy occurs could be increased. These accelerations increased the frequency where energy exchange occurs and thereby reduced the work required to swing the human lower limb. The pendulum-like exchange of energy reduces the work required for swing, but some work is still required. To explore how the remaining work for swing was produced I examined two muscles potentially involved in producing an extension moment about the intertarsal joint of turkeys during swing. The only muscle providing force for intertarsal joint extension during swing was the lateral head of the gastrocnemius (LG). A comparison of the in situ length-tension curve and in vivo operating lengths during swing revealed the LG operated at long lengths on the descending limb of the length tension curve during swing. Finally I characterized the force-velocity curve of the LG and found the muscle to have mechanical properties within the range previously determined for other vertebrates. In conclusion, I determined a passive mechanism which could reduce the required mechanical work of swing and thereby explain part of the apparent lack of a link between mechanical work and energetic cost of swing. In addition, results from these studies suggest the remaining work necessary for swing may be provided by active contraction of muscle.
Download or read book Animal Mechanism a Treatise on Terrestrial and Aerial Locomotion by E J Marey written by Etienne Jules Marey and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Principles of Animal Locomotion written by R. McNeill Alexander and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2006-03-19 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can geckoes walk on the ceiling and basilisk lizards run over water? What are the aerodynamic effects that enable small insects to fly? What are the relative merits of squids' jet-propelled swimming and fishes' tail-powered swimming? Why do horses change gait as they increase speed? What determines our own vertical leap? Recent technical advances have greatly increased researchers' ability to answer these questions with certainty and in detail. This text provides an up-to-date overview of how animals run, walk, jump, crawl, swim, soar, hover, and fly. Excluding only the tiny creatures that use cilia, it covers all animals that power their movements with muscle--from roundworms to whales, clams to elephants, and gnats to albatrosses. The introduction sets out the general rules governing all modes of animal locomotion and considers the performance criteria--such as speed, endurance, and economy--that have shaped their selection. It introduces energetics and optimality as basic principles. The text then tackles each of the major modes by which animals move on land, in water, and through air. It explains the mechanisms involved and the physical and biological forces shaping those mechanisms, paying particular attention to energy costs. Focusing on general principles but extensively discussing a wide variety of individual cases, this is a superb synthesis of current knowledge about animal locomotion. It will be enormously useful to advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and a range of professional biologists, physicists, and engineers.
Download or read book Animal Mechanism A Treatise on Terrestrial and Aerial Locomotion written by E. Marey and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-05-17 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1874. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Download or read book Animal Mechanism written by Marey and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mechanics of Animal Locomotion written by and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-12-27 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GeoffGoldspink and I edited a book, Mechanics and Energetics of Animal Locomotion, which was published by Chapman and Hall in 1977. It dealt at an advanced level with all aspects of animal locomotion, emphasizing particularly the topics of then current research. Since then there have been more elementary books on the subject, including my own Locomotion of Animals (Blackie 1982), and specialized books on such topics as swimming and flight, but (despite very substantial progress in research) there has been no advanced book covering the whole range of animal locomotion. It seemed to me and to Professor Gilles (editor ofthis series) that a new book was needed. Plainly, a book of this length cannot contain everything that is known about animal locomotion. We have not attempted to make it encyclopedic, but have tried to show where the study of animal locomotion stands now, and where it is going. Older books remain useful as sources of long-established information.
Download or read book Animal mechanism written by Etienne-Jules Marey and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Major Patterns in Vertebrate Evolution written by Max Hecht and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 901 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the result of a NATO Advanced Study Institute held in England at Kingswood Hall of Residence, Royal Holloway College (London University), Surrey, during the last two weeks of July, 1976. The ASI was organized within the guide lines laid down by the Scientific Affairs Division of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. During the past two decades, significant advances have been made in our understanding of vertebrate evolution. The purpose of the Institute was to present the current status of our know ledge of vertebrate evolution above the species level. Since the subject matter was obviously too broad to be covered adequately in the limited time available, selected topics, problems, and areas which are applicable to vertebrate zoology as a whole were reviewed. The program was divided into three areas: (1) the theory and methodology of phyletic inference and approaches to the an alysis of macroevolutionary trends as applied to vertebrates; (2) the application of these methodological principles and an alytical processes to different groups and structures, particular ly in anatomy and paleontology; (3) the application of these re sults to classification. The basic principles considered in the first area were outlined in lectures covering the problems of character analysis, functional morphology, karyological evidence, biochemical evidence, morphogenesis, and biogeography.
Download or read book Animal Mechanism written by Etienne-Jules Marey and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the extraordinary mechanisms that power animal movement in this groundbreaking work by Etienne-Jules Marey, a pioneer in the field of biomechanics. Through meticulous observation, Marey uncovers the secrets of bird flight, insect motion, and quadrupedal gait, revealing the inner workings of muscles, bones, and joints that enable animals to navigate their environments with such grace and precision. This book is an insightful glimpse into the workings of the natural world, and a must-read for anyone interested in the science of movement. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
