Abstract
It happens too often that when we try to combine the best of two worlds we hit a wall: experts (and geeks..) in one discipline cannot (and refuse to) understand the other. Biologists are not really used (or don’t really want) to hear about force, stress and strain; mechanical engineers usually not about cellular biology and gene expression. OK, not new.
Recent Advances:
However, when we then try looking within biomechanics, even high resolution imaging, bone histomorphometry and gait analysis, seem to be very different churches. The real boundary is too often between sub-disciplines, wanting to understand in depth the own sub-discipline but not trying to enter the other.
So to communicate your findings, either you submit to a scientific journal of one sub-discipline eliminating the details of the other sub-discipline -but then that will not be read by the others -or you submit to a more crossboundary
journal, getting 50% happy and 50% unhappy reviewers (experts in one but not the other). Where is the real advance?
Recent Advances:
However, when we then try looking within biomechanics, even high resolution imaging, bone histomorphometry and gait analysis, seem to be very different churches. The real boundary is too often between sub-disciplines, wanting to understand in depth the own sub-discipline but not trying to enter the other.
So to communicate your findings, either you submit to a scientific journal of one sub-discipline eliminating the details of the other sub-discipline -but then that will not be read by the others -or you submit to a more crossboundary
journal, getting 50% happy and 50% unhappy reviewers (experts in one but not the other). Where is the real advance?
Original language | English |
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Pages | 427-427 |
Number of pages | 1 |
Publication status | Published - 2019 |
Event | 25th Congress of the European Society of Biomechanics, 2019 - Vienna, Austria Duration: 7 Jul 2019 → 10 Jul 2019 Conference number: 25 https://esbiomech.org/conference/esb2019/ (Conference link) |
Conference
Conference | 25th Congress of the European Society of Biomechanics, 2019 |
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Abbreviated title | ESB 2019 |
Country/Territory | Austria |
City | Vienna |
Period | 7/07/19 → 10/07/19 |
Other | At TU Wien itself, biomechanical activities date back at least to the late 1980s and early 1990s, arising from interactions between groups from TU Wien’s Mechanical and Civil Engineering Departments and the Viennese Medical institutions. They comprise pioneering forms of bone micromechanics and adaptation modelling at the then Institute of Lightweight Design and Aerospace Engineering, or the first-ever testing device for anisotropic elasticity testing of skin, at the then Institute for Strength of Materials. In 2003, the first professor of biomechanics was appointed at TU Wien who not only established a working group in this area, but also founded the Interfacultary Laboratory for Micro- and Nanomechanics of Biological and Biomimetical Materials. |
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Keywords
- biomechanics
- gait analysis