Structure Design and Degradation Mechanisms in Coastal Environments [Hardcover]

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

GENERAL INTRODUCTION xi

CHAPTER 1. POROUS CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS: CHARACTERIZATIONS AND MODELING 1
Abdelkarim AÏT-MOKHTAR, Ameur HAMAMI, Philippe TURCRY and Ouali AMIRI

1.1. Definition of porous media 1

1.2. Different experimental tools for the characterization of porous materials 3

1.2.1. Measurements of porosity 3

1.2.2. Pore size distribution by sorption/desorption isotherms 6

1.2.3. Characterization of pore structure by NMR 7

1.2.4. Imaging techniques 10

1.3. Some constructed models for porous microstructures 14

1.3.1. Models based on pore size distribution 14

1.3.2. Tridimensional-constructed microstructures 24

1.4. Some approaches for linking microstructure data to permeability 27

1.4.1. Permeability from MIP tests 29

1.4.2. Permeability from constructed microstructures 32

1.5. Bibliography 34

CHAPTER 2. MOISTURE TRANSFERS IN POROUS CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS: MECHANISMS AND APPLICATIONS  41
Rafik BELARBI, Kamilia ABAHRI and Abdelkarim TRABELSI

2.1. Introductionl37