Structures Design and Degradation Mechanisms in Coastal Environment.

Structures Design and Degradation Mechanisms in Coastal Environment.

This book provide a series of designs, materials, characterization and modeling, that will help create safer and stronger structures in coastal areas. The authors take a look at the different materials (porous, heterogeneous, concrete ...), the moisture transfers in construction materials as well as...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ait-Mokhtar, Karim
Other Authors: Millet, Olivier
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Wiley, 2015.
Series:Civil engineering and geomechanics series.
Subjects:
Structural design.
Building materials.
building materials.
Building materials
Structural design
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright ; Contents; General Introduction; 1: Porous Construction Materials: Characterizations and Modeling; 1.1. Definition of porous media; 1.2. Different experimental tools for the characterization of porous materials; 1.2.1. Measurements of porosity; 1.2.1.1. Water porosimetry; 1.2.1.2. Mercury intrusion porosimetry; 1.2.2. Pore size distribution by sorption/desorption isotherms; 1.2.3. Characterization of pore structure by NMR; 1.2.4. Imaging techniques; 1.2.4.1. From 2D to 3D images of the pore structure; 1.2.4.2. Non-destructive 3D mapping by X-ray microtomography.
  • 1.3. Some constructed models for porous microstructures1.3.1. Models based on pore size distribution; 1.3.1.1. Statistical functions of pore size distribution; 1.3.1.1.1. Case of monomodal porous structures; 1.3.1.1.2. Case of polymodal porous structures; 1.3.1.1.3. Determination of the pore-specific area; 1.3.1.2. Models including geometrical parameters; 1.3.2. Tridimensional-constructed microstructures; 1.3.2.1. Vectorial approach; 1.3.2.2. Voxel-based method; 1.4. Some approaches for linking microstructure data to permeability; 1.4.1. Permeability from MIP tests.
  • 1.4.1.1. Case of cylindrical pores1.4.1.2. Case of more complex geometrical shape of pores; 1.4.2. Permeability from constructed microstructures; 1.4.2.1. Permeability determination from network of capillaries; 1.4.2.2. Permeability determination by Stokes equation resolution; 1.5. Bibliography; 2: Moisture Transfers in Porous Construction Materials: Mechanisms and Applications; 2.1. Introduction; 2.2. Quantitative characteristics describing moisture in porous media; 2.3. Phenomenon of transfer and moisture storage; 2.3.1. Moisture diffusion; 2.3.2. Capillarity; 2.3.3. Infiltration.
  • 2.3.4. Physical and chemical adsorption2.4. Moisture transfer modeling: macroscopic approach; 2.4.1. Driving potentials; 2.4.2. Conservation equations; 2.4.3. Moisture transfer; 2.4.3.1. Vapor transfer; 2.4.3.2. Liquid transfer; 2.4.3.3. Gas transfer (dry air and vapor); 2.4.4. Heat transfer; 2.4.5. Case study; 2.4.5.1. Boundary conditions; 2.4.5.2. Results and discussions; 2.5. Transfer and storage properties; 2.5.1. Vapor permeability; 2.5.1.1. Experimental methods and references; 2.5.1.2. Wood fibrous insulation measurements; 2.5.2. Moisture diffusion coefficient.
  • 2.5.2.1. Moisture flow mechanisms2.5.2.2. Method for assessment of moisture diffusion coefficient; 2.5.2.3. Moisture diffusion coefficient of high performance concretes (HPCs); 2.5.2.3.1. Detailed method; 2.5.2.3.2. Experimental setup; 2.5.2.3.3. Materials; 2.5.2.3.4. Results; 2.5.3. Infiltration coefficient; 2.5.3.1. Intrinsic and apparent infiltration coefficient; 2.5.3.2. Tested materials; 2.5.3.3. Experimental protocol; 2.5.3.4. Case study results and discussion; 2.5.4. Water vapor sorption-desorption isotherms; 2.5.4.1. Methods for assessment of water vapor sorption-desorption isotherms.

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