Civil Engineering: Materials Properties

Coverage of more than 15,000 materials; details on chemicals, minerals, fuels, textiles, synthetics, pharmaceuticals, elastomers, ceramic coatings, industrial substances, food-stuffs, natural plant and animal subtances; thousands of new technologies and products; properties and characteristics of materials, including composition, production methods, uses, and commercial designations or trade names; and a thorough index for finding the material you need.

Includes 13 major sections containing 161 separate articles ranging across a broad area of useful information about structural composites for engineering applications.

Offers articles describing 40 major engineering plastics families, 29 thermoplastics and 11 thermosets.

Thorough review of the selection, design, properties, and uses of structural adhesives and sealants, including: an overview of adhesives and sealants technology; a description of the major market and application areas; classification and comparison of various adhesives and sealants; surface preparation/considerations for adherents (metals, plastics, composites, and ceramics and glasses); methods used to test and analyze bonded structures; determination of mechanical properties (fatigue, fracture, etc.); physical characteristics (thermal and electrical); and microstructural analysis.

Covers the complete spectrum of technology dealing with heat-resistant materials including high-temperature characteristics, effects of processing and microstructure on high-temperature properties, materials selection guidelines for industrial applications, and life-assessment methods.

Offers concise information on the properties of polymeric materials, particularly those most relevant to the areas of physical chemistry and chemical physics.

The ASM Handbook series provides comprehensive and practical information on the properties and performance of materials—with a particular emphasis on industrially important metals and alloys—and the processes used in the manufacture and fabrication of components. The current series includes volumes on properties and selection, phase diagrams, heat treating, surface engineering, welding, powder metallurgy, mechanical testing, metallography and microstructures, materials characterization, failure analysis, fractography, corrosion, forming and forging, casting, machining, nondestructive testing, tribology, fatigue, and modeling.