Biomechanics of Injury and Prevention

This book summarizes the recent advancements for biomechanics of injury and prevention in mechanism, application and developing frontiers. Biomechanics plays an important role in achieving safety, health, comfort, and a high quality of life by revealing injury mechanism and providing prevention methods. The book covers injury and prevention to the entire human body, from head to toe, including injury and prevention in sports, traffic, accident, clinic and so on. In addition, bionics prevention method inspired by woodpecker is also introduced. The book provides the reader with not only the mechanism of injury but also the advanced injury diagnosis, treatment, and prevention devices based on biomechanics.

Dr. Yubo Fan is the chairman of the 7th and 8th sessions of Chinese Society of Biomedical Engineering, Dean, professor and doctoral supervisor of School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering and School of Engineering Medicine at Beihang University. He graduated from the Department of Mechanics of Peking University with a bachelor's degree in 1987 and a doctor's degree in Chengdu University of Science and Technology in 1992. From 1999 to 2006, he visited Hong Kong Polytechnic University seven times, and in 2003, 04 and 05, he visited Canada, Japan and other countries for cooperative research. He is mainly engaged in the research of biomedical engineering, biomechanics, tissue engineering, aerospace biomedical engineering and rehabilitation engineering, fields in which he has published more than 300 SCI articles.

Dr. Lizhen Wang is a professor and doctoral supervisor of School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering at Beihang University. She obtained her doctoral degree from Beihang University in 2012, and was a visiting Professor at Georgia Tech and Emory University, University of Michigan from 2016 to 2018. She is mainly engaged in the research of biomechanics, design and testing of medical implants and aerospace medical engineering, fields in which she has published more than 80 SCI articles.