Foreword Bridging motor control and biomechanics One can assume that motor control and biomechanics are united by a common goal to understand the basic mechanisms of the coordinated movements. Relationships between motor control and biomechanics are natural and the interdisciplinary research on that field has a long tradition in Poland. The origin can be delineated by the seminar entitled Schoo...

the purpose of this study is to survey cross section changes of the animal brain samples during the tension and compression tests and comparison of the experimental results for three animals: bovine, sheep, and rabbit. a linear elastic theory with considering the necking in tension and barreling in compression has been considered for brain tissue. bridgman method for tension and cross section u...

The introduction of finite element analysis (FEA) into orthopaedic biomechanics allowed continuum structural analysis of bone and bone-implant composites of complicated shapes (Huiskes and Chao, J. Biomechanics, Vol. 16, 1983, pp. 385-409). However, besides having complicated shapes, musculoskeletal tissues are hierarchical composites with multiple structural levels that adapt to their mechanic...