Structures design and degradation mechanisms in coastal environment / edited by Karim Ait-Mokhtar, Olivier Millet.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ait-Mokhtar, Karim, editor.

Millet, Olivier, editor.

Series:

Civil engineering and geomechanics series.

Civil Engineering and Geomechanics Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Building materials.

Porous materials.

Seismic prospecting.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (324 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London, England ; Hoboken, New Jersey : ISTE : Wiley, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 the degradation caused by external attacks and put forth systems to monitor the structures or evaluate the performance reliability as well as degradation scenarios of coastal protection systems.

Contents:

""Table of Contents""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""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""; ""1.3. Some constructed models for porous microstructures""; ""1.4. Some approaches for linking microstructure data to permeability""; ""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""; ""2.4. Moisture transfer modeling: macroscopic approach""; ""2.5. Transfer and storage properties""; ""2.6. Effect of statisfical variability of water vapor desorption used as input data""; ""2.7. Conclusion""; ""2.8. Bibliography""; ""3: Homogenization Methods for Ionic Transfers in Saturated Heterogeneous Materials""; ""3.1. General introduction""; ""3.2. Different techniques of homogenization""

""3.3. Periodic homogenization of ionic transfers accounting for electrical double layer""""3.4. Particular case of ionic transfer without EDL""; ""3.5. Simulations and parametric study of the EDL effects""; ""3.6. Calculations of effective chlorides diffusion coefficients using a multiscale homogenization procedure""; ""3.7. Bibliography""; ""4: Chloride Transport in Unsaturated Concrete""; ""4.1. Introduction""; ""4.2. Chloride diffusion in unsaturated case""; ""4.3. Summary of the model""; ""4.4. Difficulties in determining some parameters of the model""

""4.5. Numerical method description""""4.6. Conclusions""; ""4.7. Bibliography""; ""5: Construction Degradation by External Sulfate Attacks""; ""5.1. Introduction""; ""5.2. Mechanisms of degradation""; ""5.3. Influence of concrete composition and standards requirements""; ""5.4. Testing for sulfate resistance""; ""5.5. Conclusion""; ""5.6. Bibliography""; ""6: Performance-Based Design of Structures and Methodology for Performance Reliability""; ""6.1. Introduction""; ""6.2. Code treatment of structural reliability""; ""6.3. Second moment transformation and simulation methods""

""6.4. Load and resistance modeling considering uncertainty""""6.5. Probabilistic assessment of limit-state violation""; ""6.6. Component versus system reliability""; ""6.7. Time-dependent reliability""; ""6.8. Conclusion""; ""6.9. Bibliography""; ""7: Coastal Protection Degradation Scenarios""; ""7.1. Functions and types of coastal dikes""; ""7.2. Stress of coastal dikes""; ""7.3. Dysfunction and failure of coastal dikes""; ""7.4. Bibliography""; ""List of Authors""; ""Index""; ""End User License Agreement""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 12, 2015).

ISBN:

9781119006084

1119006082

9781119006091

1119006090

OCLC:

908670278