Self Healing Materials An Alternative Approach to 20 Centuries of Materials Science /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Zwaag, Sybrand van der (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2007.
• Series: Springer Series in Materials Science, 100
• Subjects: Materials science.; Polymers.; Continuum mechanics.; Mechanical engineering.; Structural materials.; Biomaterials.; Materials Science.; Materials Science, general.; Mechanical Engineering.; Polymer Sciences.; Structural Materials.; Continuum Mechanics and Mechanics of Materials.

This book, the first in this new field of materials science, aims to present a coherent picture of the design principles and resulting properties of self healing materials over all material classes, and to offset them to the current design principles for structural materials with improved mechanical...