Virtual anthropology meets biomechanics

Journal of Biomechanics

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1429-1432

  Weber, Gerhard W ^a   Bookstein, Fred L ^a,b   Strait, David S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomechanics; Finite Element Analysis; Geometry; Morphometrics; Virtual Anthropology

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL REGIONS; BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES; DIFFERENT GEOMETRY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; MORPHOMETRICS; STRESS AND STRAIN; VIRTUAL ANTHROPOLOGY;

BIOMECHANICS; BIOPHYSICS; GEOMETRY;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

ANTHROPOLOGY; BIOMECHANICS; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRANIOFACIAL MORPHOLOGY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MECHANICAL STRESS; MORPHOMETRICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; STRESS STRAIN RELATIONSHIP; VIRTUAL ANTHROPOLOGY; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ANIMALS; ANTHROPOLOGY; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIOMECHANICS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; MACACA; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 79955473225     PISSN: 00219290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2011.02.079     Document Type: Short Survey

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