Self Healing Materials

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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“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.

• Aluminium
• Asphalt
• Transmission electron microscopy
• advanced materials
• concrete
• remendable polymers
• self-healing

From the reviews:

"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)

• Technical University Delft, The Netherlands

  Sybrand Zwaag

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