Publisher's Synopsis
This presents a unified description of transport processes involving saturated and unsaturated flow in porous inorganic materials and structures. It sets out fundamental physics and materials science, mathematical description and experimental measurement as a basis for engineering design and construction practice.
This latest edition combines a systematic presentation of the scientific and technical literature, with some new analyses of technical topics and processes such as sorption isotherm, temperature dependence of sorptivity, time-dependent properties of cement-based materials, layered materials, air-trapping and new computational packages.
It serves as an authoritative reference for research workers, practising engineers and students of civil, building, architectural and materials engineering. Much of the fundamental work suits engineers in soil science and geotechnics, and in oilfield, chemical and process engineering.
