Finite element analysis and understanding the biomechanics and evolution of living and fossil organisms

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Volumn 35, Issue , 2007, Pages 541-576

  Rayfield, Emily J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biomechanics; Feeding; Functional morphology; Skull; Strain; Stress

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; DEFORMATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MORPHOLOGY; STRAIN; STRESSES;

FOSSIL ORGANISMS; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; ORGANISMAL MORPHOLOGY; PALEONTOLOGICAL SCIENCE; ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

BIOMECHANICS; EVOLUTION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FOSSIL; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENETICS; STRAIN; STRESS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 34250674405     PISSN: 00846597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.earth.35.031306.140104     Document Type: Article

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