The insertion is the other end of the muscle that is attached to the bone which moves. Muscular contractions are defined as the change in the length of the muscle under contraction. Muscles ...

Skeletal muscle is attached to the skeleton by tendons, and maintains the position of bones and has a role in their movement through voluntary contraction.

Contraction joints (sometimes called control joints) are used in unreinforced and lightly reinforced slabs-on-ground to minimize random cracking. By creating straight-line weakened-planes in ...