This is a branch of science which is located between biology and engineering. Biomechanics has been developed through spatial investigations and also due to the need that arises to know the behavior of human beings when subjected to high demands. The main objective of biomechanics is to evaluate each of the parts that make up the body and the limits of resistance that these may have.
On the other hand, in the automotive field, biomechanics has laid the theoretical basis for the most advanced research focused on the resistance that human beings have against a crash, as well as in the field of physiological tolerance to the working conditions that they are presented during a car trip.
Biomechanics can be divided into two types: static and dynamic. For its part, statics focuses on the balance of bodies, which can be found at rest or, failing that, in motion. For its part, dynamics is in charge of studying the movement presented by those bodies under the action exerted by the forces involved in the movement.
It should be noted that the dynamics at the same time is divided into two sub-classifications: the first is kinematics, which is responsible for the study of movements in which some type of acceleration or displacement occurs. The other is kinetics focused on the study of the forces that trigger movements.
Biomechanics nowadays merges with other science such as biomedicine, anatomy, engineering and physiology. In the case of medicine specifically, it is characterized by intervening in the creation of prostheses and organs. Biomechanics can also, through mathematical models, achieve the simulation of physical phenomena using very diverse parameters manipulation.
For its part, this science officially entered the industry at the end of the sixties with the publication in the US of safety standard No. 208, which defines the maximum admissible stimulus criteria for the head, thorax and femur. presented by the test figures that, in collisions at certain speeds against barriers, mimic the behavior normally exhibited by human beings.
