Environmental Degradation of Advanced and Traditional Engineering - Material

"Preface Corrosion is ubiquitous: all engineering systems are subject to environmental degradation in service environments, whether these systems are used for national defense or to save and improve the quality of life of individuals (medical devices of all kinds); to meet our energy needs on this planet; to provide clean air; to transport water, energy products, and other objects of our commercial world (pipelines, oil tankers, automobiles, aircraft, etc.); and many others including the vast spatial presence of infrastructure systems. From heart stents to nuclear electric generating stations, corrosion is part of our world. What remains a persistent, resource-consuming reality in the engineering enterprise is that engineering systems are built of materials that are subject to environmental degradation that ultimately must be repaired or replaced. Whether an airframe, integrated circuit, bridge, prosthetic device, or implantable drug delivery system, the chemical stability of the materials of construction of such systems continues to be a key element in determining their useful life. To put the detrimental effects of corrosion into perspective, the overall annual cost of metallic corrosion on a global basis was estimated to be 3.8% of gross world output or $1.9 trillion (based on the year 2004). The losses for the United States were estimated to be approximately 30% of the global losses (Bhaskaran et al. 2005). This volume provides a comprehensive treatment of the environmental degradation of traditionaland advanced engineering materials, covering metals, polymers, ceramics, composites, and natural materials. This coverage of environmental degradation goes beyond the classical definition of the corrosive degradation of metals that was defined as the"--

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• Authors: Lloyd H. Adler Hihara
• Assisted by: Ralph P.I. Adler (Editor), Adler Ralph P.I. (Editor), Lloyd H. Hihara (Editor), Hihara Lloyd H. (Editor), Ronald M. Latanision (Editor), Latanision Ronald M. (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.10.2013
• EAN: 9781439819265
• ISBN: 978-1-4398-1926-5
• No. of pages: 719
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > General, dictionaries; SCIENCE / Physics / General, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Structural, Materials science, Civil engineering, surveying & building, Mathematics & science, Mathematics and science, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Materials Science / General, Civil engineering, surveying and building