This book reviews work that covers everything from basic chemistry to advanced applications. Chitin and chitosan are used in a plethora of applications from wastewater treatment to prosthetics. After introducing the subject of polysaccharides as a whole, the authors turn to the …
Corrosion due to water is one of the most significant and complex causes of damage to metallic products. Written from the viewpoint of physical chemistry, this authoritative and established text deals with the aqueous corrosion of metals. Available for the first time in English,…
"Corrosion is one of the most dangerous causes of damage to metallic products. From the viewpoint of physical chemistry, this book deals with the aqueous corrosion of metals, addressing engineers, metallurgists, physicists and chemists. The book is resourceful due to the excelle…
"Construction materials (cement-based, bituminous, metals, and alloys) are prone to cracking...Self-healing materials form a new class of materials that have inbuilt engineered properties to counteract damage and repair it before it becomes critical." -- from back cover.
This book provides a thorough overview of all techniques for producing self-healing construction materials. Construction materials (cement-based, bituminous, metals, and alloys) are prone to cracking, which with the progress of time can lead to compromising of the structural int…
Fatigue has long been recognized as a mechanism that can provoke catastrophic material failure in structural applications and researchers are now turning to the development of prediction tools in order to reduce the cost of determining design criteria for any new material. Fatig…