{"id":247471,"date":"2016-07-20T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-19T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?guid=eb305059580684274cf36d3de0ef25f0"},"modified":"2016-07-20T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-19T23:00:00","slug":"the-biomechanics-of-solids-and-fluids-the-physics-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?p=247471","title":{"rendered":"The biomechanics of solids and fluids: the physics of life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Biomechanics borrows and extends engineering techniques to study the mechanical properties of<br \/>\norganisms and their environments. Like physicists and engineers, biomechanics researchers tend to<br \/>\nspecialize on either fluids or solids (but some do both). For solid materials, the stress\u2013strain<br \/>\ncurve reveals such useful information as various moduli, ultimate strength, extensibility, and work<br \/>\nof fracture. Few biological materials are linearly elastic so modified elastic moduli are defined.<br \/>\nAlthough biological materials tend to be less stiff than engineered materials, biomaterials tend to<br \/>\nbe tougher due to their anisotropy and high extensibility. Biological beams are usually hollow<br \/>\ncylinders; particularly in plants, beams and columns tend to have high twist-to-bend ratios. Air and<br \/>\nwater are the dominant biological fluids. Fluids generate both viscous and pressure drag (normalized<br \/>\nas drag coefficients) and the Reynolds number (Re) gives their relative importance. The no-slip<br \/>\nconditions l&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biomechanics borrows and extends engineering techniques to study the mechanical properties of<br \/>\norganisms and their environments. Like physicists and engineers, biomechanics researchers tend to<br \/>\nspecialize on either fluids or solids (but some do both). &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-247471","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-rss-fuusikaharidus","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=247471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=247471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=247471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=247471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}