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Self Healing Materials

An Alternative Approach to 20 Centuries of Materials Science

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  • © 2007

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Editors:
  1. Sybrand Zwaag

    1. Technical University Delft, The Netherlands

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  • First book to provide an introduction to the field of self-healing materials
  • Covers the interdisciplinary nature of the subject with contributions from top people in the field

Part of the book series: Springer Series in Materials Science (SSMATERIALS, volume 100)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. An Introduction to Material Design Principles: Damage Prevention versus Damage Management

    • Sybrand van der Zwaag
    Pages 1-18

  3. Self Healing Polymers and Composites

    • H. M. Andersson, Michael W. Keller, Jeffrey S. Moore, Nancy R. Sottos, Scott White
    Pages 19-44

  4. Re-Mendable Polymers

    • Sheba D. Bergman, Fred Wudl
    Pages 45-68

  5. Thermally Induced Self Healing of Thermosetting Resins and Matrices in Smart Composites

    • Frank R. Jones, Wenting Zhang, Simon A. Hayes
    Pages 69-93

  6. Ionomers as Self Healing Polymers

    • Russell Varley
    Pages 95-114

  7. Self Healing Fibre-reinforced Polymer Composites: an Overview

    • Ian P. Bond, Richard S. Trask, Hugo R. Williams, Gareth J. Williams
    Pages 115-138

  8. Self Healing Polymer Coatings

    • Rolf A. T. M. van Benthem, Weihua (Marshall) Ming, Gijsbertus (Bert) de With
    Pages 139-159

  9. Self Healing in Concrete Materials

    • Victor C. Li, En-Hua Yang
    Pages 161-193

  10. Self Healing Concrete: A Biological Approach

    • Henk M. Jonkers
    Pages 195-204

  11. Exploring Mechanism of H ealing in Asphalt Mixtures and Quantifying its Impact

    • Dallas N. Little, Amit Bhasin
    Pages 205-218

  12. Self Healing in Aluminium Alloys

    • Roger Lumley
    Pages 219-254

  13. Crack and Void Healing in Metals

    • Hua Wang, Peizheng Huang, Zhonghua Li
    Pages 255-277

  14. Advances in Transmission Electron Microscopy: Self Healing or is Prevention Better than Cure?

    • Jeff Th. M. de Hosson, Hiroyuki Y. Yasuda
    Pages 279-307

  15. Self Healing in Coatings at High Temperatures

    • Wim G. Sloof
    Pages 309-321

  16. Hierarchical Structure and Repair of Bone: Deformation, Remodelling, Healing

    • Peter Fratzl, Richard Weinkamer
    Pages 323-335

  17. Modeling of Self Healing of Skin Tissue

    • Fred Vermolen, Miranda W. G. van Rossum, Etelvina Javierre Perez, John Adam
    Pages 337-363

  18. Numerical Modelling of Self Healing Mechanisms

    • Joris J. C. Remmers, René de Borst
    Pages 365-380

  19. Back Matter

    Pages 381-385
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About this book

“As a general principle natural selection is continually trying to economise every part of the organisation. ” That was Charles Darwin, writing over 100 years ago about e- ciency innature. Naturalmaterialsareremarkably ef?cient. Byef?cient wemeanthat they ful?l the complex requirements posed by the way plants and animals function, and that they do so using as little material as possible. Many of these requirements are mechanical in nature: the need to support static and dynamic loads created by the mass of the organism or by wind loading, the need to store and release elastic energy, the need to ?ex through large angles, the need to resist buckling and fracture, and to survive damage. Few optimisation algorithms have been more successful than that of “survival of the ?ttest”. The structural materials of nature exemplify this op- misation; even today, few man-made materials do better than those of nature in the function that they ?ll. And of all the remarkable properties of natural materials, one is truly exceptional – that of the ability for self-repair. One recurring goal of material development has been to emulate the materials of nature. Among these, the most illusive is that of self-repair. In approaching this it is well to be aware of the nature of the differences that separate the structural materials of man and those of nature.

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"There have been discussions of self-healing materials in various journals for some time, this is the first attempt at bringing the current state of knowledge in one place on a broad variety of materials. … the book should be of interest to the entire community of materials scientists working on both structural and functional materials. … will also be suitable as a textbook in a course on self-healing materials at the graduate level. … a unique compilation of state-of-art on this topic." (Ravi Rungta, JOM, March, 2008)

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  • Technical University Delft, The Netherlands

    Sybrand Zwaag

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