IACM/ECCOMAS Congress 2008

Wednesday, July 2nd 10:30 - 12:30
Computational Modelling of Locomotor Systems I
Minisymposium organized by Markus Böl, Stefanie Reese and Bob Svendsen

Room: PGL
MS208A

10:30 The effect of Walking Speed on Muscle Function
Richard Neptune, Kotaro Sasaki and Steven Kautz

10:50 Muscle Contraction on the Half-Sarcomere Level: A New Model Approach
Ivo A. Telley, Urs Stöcker and Jachen Denoth

11:10 A Three-Dimensional Finite Element Framework For Investigating Functional Electrical Stimulation Protocols
Oliver Röhrle, Juliana Kim, John Davidson and Andrew Pullan

11:30 Skiing Turns
Peter Kaps, Werner Nachbauer, Dieter Heinrich, Martin Mössner and Ulrich Filippi-Oberegger

11:50 Predicting Quadriceps Fatigue during Electrically Stimulated Non-Isometric Contractions
Susan Marion, Maury Hull and Anthony Wexler

12:10 A Model for Muscle based on a Molecular Mechanical System
Sam Walcott

Wednesday, July 2nd 14:00 - 16:00
Computational Modelling of Locomotor Systems II
Minisymposium organized by Markus Böl, Stefanie Reese and Bob Svendsen

Room: PGL
MS208B

14:00 Non-Equilibrium Mechanics of Motor-Activated Gels and Living Cells
Fred MacKintosh

14:20 Effect of Muscle Properties on Postural Stability of Simple Musculoskeletal System
Christian Rode, Tobias Siebert, Olaf Till and Reinhard Blickhan

14:40 An Optimisation Method to simulate Whole-Body walking using Asymmetric Lower Limbs to search a Stable Gait
Weijie Wang and Rami Abboud

15:00 Visible Biomechanics: 4D-Visualization of Human Ankle Joint Flexion based on Dynamic Radiology (MRI)
Cornelia Kobe, Joerg Rieger, Robert Sader and Martin Mack

15:20 Simulation of Stretch-Shortening Cycles with Two Common Hill-Type Muscle Models
Tobias Siebert, Christian Rode, Olaf Till and Reinhard Blickhan

15:40 Three-dimensional Muscle Modelling
Markus Böl and Stefanie Reese

Wednesday, July 2nd 16:30 - 18:30
Computational Modelling of Locomotor Systems III
Minisymposium organized by Markus Böl, Stefanie Reese and Bob Svendsen

Room: PGL
MS208C

16:30 The 3D Architecture of Muscle Fascicles in Selected Muscles and its Relevance to Force Production
Heiko Stark, M.S. Fischer and N. Schilling

16:50 Three-Dimensional Modelling of Whole-Body Human Walking: An Investigation into the Fundamental Problem of Inverse Dynamics
Lei Ren and David Howard

17:10 Optimization-Based and EMG-Assisted Estimation of Muscle Forces and Joint Moments under Isometric and Dynamic Contractions
David Amarantini

17:30 Prediction of Human Walking based on Simple Gait Descriptors
Lei Ren, Richard Jones and David Howard

17:50 A Model to explain Human Trunk Mechanics in Walking
Emanuel Andrada and Hartmut Witte

18:10 Computational Mechanics of Human Gluteal Soft Tissue and Body Support Interaction
Gerhard Silber and Christophe Then

Thursday, July 3rd 10:30 - 12:30
Computational Modelling of Locomotor Systems IV
Minisymposium organized by Markus Böl, Stefanie Reese and Bob Svendsen

Room: PGL
MS208D

10:30 Biomechanics of a Crouched Gait caused by Spastic Cerebral Palsy in Children
Zubayer Karim, Andreas Kranzl, Margit Gfoehler and Marcus G. Pandy

10:50 Motion Dynamics and Optimization of Humans and a Biologically Inspired Biped Robot
Maximilian Stelzer and Oskar von Stryk

11:10 In Vivo Mechanical Characterisation of Human Buttock Fat and Muscle using Inverse FEM
Christophe Then and Gerhard Silber

11:30 Mammalian Muscle Contraction and Performance Examined by Temperature Perturbation
K.W. Ranatunga

11:50 Optimisation of Dynamic Human Movement
Mark King, Maurice Yeadon and Pui Kong

12:10 CT-Based Reconstruction and Modelling of Muscle and Nerve Tissue
Amaryllis Audenaert and Emmanuel Audenaert

Thursday, July 3rd 14:00 - 16:00
Computational Modelling of Locomotor Systems V
Minisymposium organized by Markus Böl, Stefanie Reese and Bob Svendsen

Room: PGL
MS208E

14:00 Identification of Neuromechanical Muscle Properties
Sigrid Thaller, Markus Tilp and Martin Sust

14:20 SubjectSpecific Human Motion Dynamic Simulation on the Basis of 3D Bones and Soft Tissue Measured Morphology
Victor Sholukha, Fedor Moiseev, Olivier Snoeck, Patrick Salvia, Andrej Morozov, Fulvia Taddei, Marcel Rooze and Serge Van Sint Jan

14:40 Model-Based Approaches in Biomechanical Movements: From the Assessment to the Interpretation in Clinical Use
Guenter Rau, Thomas Schmitz-Rode and Catherine Disselhorst-Klug