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This chapter provides a brief biological overview of fundamental skeletal muscle mechanics and current muscle contraction theories, focusing own previous work. The overview includes dynamical 1D behavior and models of muscle fibers or whole muscles as well as some results on 3D behavior and models of muscles. One of the impressive current results is that in isometric contractions followed by a stretch, the muscle fiber acts like a linear spring with adjustable rest length. While this may suggest simpler 1D models of muscle fiber force development, effects on the level of the 3D muscle might again hamper simple descriptions. More detailed introductions to dynamical muscle behaviours can be found, e.g., in Rode and Siebert (2017).

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  1. Motion and Exercise Science, University of Stuttgart, Allmandring 28, 70569, Stuttgart, Germany

    Christian Rode

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  1. Chair of Autonomous Systems and Mechatronics, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany

    Philipp Beckerle

  2. Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Tehran School of Engineering, Tehran, Iran

    Maziar Ahmad Sharbafi

  3. Dienst Werktuigkunde (MECH), Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Flanders Make, Brussels, Belgium

    Tom Verstraten

  4. Institute of Medical Device Technology, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

    Peter P. Pott

  5. Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Hessen, Germany

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Rode, C. (2021). Dynamic Muscle Behaviours. In: Beckerle, P., Sharbafi, M.A., Verstraten, T., Pott, P.P., Seyfarth, A. (eds) Novel Bioinspired Actuator Designs for Robotics. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 888. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40886-2_1

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