Engineering materials science: properties, uses, degradation, and remediation

Exhaustive, authoritative and comprehensive, using 160 statistical tables, this book addresses the fundamental structure of materials and remediation, and looks at the properties of water and water-induced degradation and deterioration, with chapters on moisture effects in buildings and materials, corrosion theory and metal protection. The authors explain the behaviour of materials in fires, fundamental fire resistance principles and techniques, calculation of flame temperatures, and the removal of heat by nitrogen and other combustion products. It addresses properties performance, degradation.

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Front Cover; Engineering Materials Science: Properties, Uses, Degradation and Remediation; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; SOURCES OF INFORMATION; PREFACE; CHAPTER 1. STRUCTURE OF MATERIALS; 1.1 INTRODUCTION; 1.2 NOMENCLATURE AND COMPOSITION; 1.3 ATOMIC THEORY; 1.4 CHARACTERISTICS OF CHEMICAL ELEMENTS; 1.5 PERIODIC TABLE OF ELEMENTS; 1.6 ELECTRON CONFIGURATION OF ELEMENTS; 1.7 TRENDS ACROSS A PERIOD IN THE PERIODIC TABLE; 1.8 TRENDS WITHIN A GROUP IN THE PERIODIC TABLE; 1.9 CHEMICAL BONDS; 1.10 METALLIC BONDS; 1.11 COVALENT BONDS; 1.12 IONIC BONDS; 1.13 MIXED BONDING.

1.14 VAN DER WAALS FORCES (OR 'BONDS')1.15 STRUCTURE OF SOLIDS; 1.16 METALLIC STRUCTURES; 1.17 COVALENT STRUCTURES; 1.18 IONIC STRUCTURES; 1.19 ACIDS AND ALKALIS (BASES); 1.20 RADIOACTMTY; 1.21 LAND FILL GASES; CHAPTER 2. STATES OF MATTER AND PHYSICAL CONSTANTS; 2.1 INTRODUCTION; 2.2 GASES; 2.3 LIQUIDS; 2.4 SOLIDS; 2.5 CHANGE OF PHASE AND LATENT HEAT; 2.6 LIQUID TO SOLID CHANGE OF PHASE; 2.7 LIQUID TO GAS CHANGE OF PHASE; 2.8 DEFORMATION; 2.9 SOLUTIONS; 2.10 THIXOTROPY AND DILATANCY; CHAPTER 3. MECHANICAL PROPERTIES AND TESTING; 3.1 INTRODUCTION; 3.2 TENSILE TESTING; 3.3 COMPRESSION TESTING.

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