This well-established book on injury biomechanics has been extensively revised and expanded for this new edition. It now includes a fundamental treatment of the mechanics at a cellular level, written by the new coauthor Prof. Barclay Morrison III from Columbia University. Furthermore, considerably more attention is paid to computer modeling, and in particular modeling the human body. The book addresses a wide range of topics in injury biomechanics, including anatomy, injury classification, injury mechanisms, and injury criteria. Further, it provides essential information on regional injury reference values, or injury criteria, that are either currently in use or proposed by both US and European communities. Although the book is intended as an introduction for doctors and engineers who are newcomers to the field of injury biomechanics, sufficient references are provided for those who wish to conduct further research, and even established researchers will find it useful as a reference guide to the biomechanical background of each proposed injury mechanism and injury criterion.

For the 4th edition of Trauma Biomechanics all existing chapters referring to traffic and sports have been revised and updated. New scientific knowledge and changes in legal defaults (such as norms and standards of crash tests) have been integrated. Additionally one chapter has been added where biomechanical aspects of injuries affected by high energies are communicated in a new way. The mechanical basics for ballistics and explosions are described and the respective impacts on human bodies are discussed. The new edition with the additional chapter therefore is addressed to a broader audience than the previous one.

This title provides a comprehensive overview of the current basic and research knowledge relating to the anatomy of plants. The latest scientific findings and research methods of molecular, interdisciplinary and comparative approaches are combined in this work into an integrated ecological and systematic plant anatomy. This reference and textbook is completed by clear illustrations, the didactic presentation of recognized authors and a standard-setting bibliography.

Ziel dieses Buches ist die Vermittlung von Grundlagen der Programmierung unter besonderer Berucksichtigung mathematischer Aufgabenstellungen und der hierfur charakteristischen Aspekte der Softwareentwicklung. Neben der Programmiersprache C werden auch solche Programmiertechniken behandelt, wie sie vor allem im Bereich der Numerik haufig Verwendung finden. Aufgrund vieler Beispiele, UEbungsaufgaben sowie Kontrollfragen mit Loesungen ist das Buch auch bestens zum Selbststudium geeignet. Fur Mathematiker, Naturwissenschaftler und Ingenieure, aber auch Teilnehmer entsprechend ausgerichteter wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Studiengange, die mit der rechnergestutzten Bearbeitung mathematischer Probleme bestens geeignet.