Description:
Self-Healing Composite Materials: From Designs to Applications provides a unique resource on self-healing composites for materials scientists and engineers in academia, as well as researchers involved in the aerospace, automotive, wind-generation, construction, consumer goods and marine industries. There is a huge demand for self-healing composites that respond to their environment like living matter. Unlike other composites, self-healing composites are combined with carbon materials and resins to form a recoverable composite material. This book covers the manufacturing, design and characterization of self-healing composites, including their morphological, structural, mechanical, thermal and electrical properties.
The title begins with mathematical background and then considers innovative approaches to physical modeling, analysis and design techniques, providing a robust knowledge of modern self-healing composites with commercial applications.
Brief description: Raveendran N. Shiju is Associate Professor in the Van't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences at the University of Amsterdam, and a Visiting Professor at Yangzhou University in China. He has won several significant prizes for his research, including the New Idea Prize from Amsterdam Science Park for the discovery of a new catalyst for nylon manufacture. He holds a PhD from the National Chemical Laboratory in Pune, India, and has published internationally.