The use of innovative new materials is an important trend in landscape architecture today. These materials include biodegradable geotextiles, super-absorbent polymers, and plants that react to changing soil conditions. This book presents the available materials and technologies in the context of practical applications.

Today, architects and designers are beginning to look toward developments in new "smart" or "intelligent" materials and technologies for solutions to long-standing problems in building design. However, these new materials have so far been applied in a diverse but largely idiosyncratic nature, because relatively few architects have access to information about the types or properties of these new materials or technologies. Two of the leading experts in this field - Addington and Schodek - have solved this problem by incorporating all the relevant information of all the latest technologies available to architects and designers in this one volume. They present materials by describing their fundamental characteristics, and go on to identify and suggest how these same characteristics can be exploited by professionals to achieve their design goals. Here, the wealth of technical understanding already available in the materials science and engineering literature is at last made accessible to a design audience.

Materials selection is a crucial factor in determining the cost, quality, and corrosion protection for every engineering project. The variety of increasingly durable materials and their combinations, coupled with the rise of new and more critical service requirements and the demand for lower costs, have expanded upon trial-and-error criteria into m

Ch. 1. 21st century challenges for biomaterials / Larry L. Hench -- ch. 2. Stem cell technology: hope or hype? / Larry L. Hench and Julian R. Jones -- ch. 3. Bioactive materials for gene control / Larry L. Hench -- ch. 4. Nanoparticles for novel healthcare therapeutics / Sudipta Seal [und weitere] -- ch. 5. Glass microspheres for cancer treatment / Delbert E. Day -- ch. 6. Bioactive glasses and angiogenesis / Alejandro A. Gorustovich, Luis A. Haro Durand, Aldo R. Boccaccini -- ch. 7. Clinical applications of bioactive glasses for maxillo-facial repair / Ian Thompson -- ch. 8. Clinical applications of bioactive glass-ceramics / Takao Yamamuro -- ch. 9. Hierarchical porous scaffolds for bone regeneration / Julian R. Jones -- ch. 10. Cartilage regeneration / Adam C. Grochowski and MIchael B. Fenn -- ch. 11. Hydrogels for tissue engineering of articular cartilage / Javier S. Castro -- ch. 12. Total knee replacements / Jason Wertz -- ch. 13. Total hip replacement / Kim Elshot Alvarez -- ch. 14. Bioactive surfaces for total hip prosthesis / Takao Yamamuro -- ch. 15. Artificial skin and wound dressings / Krystle Placencio [und weitere] -- ch. 16. Degenerative disc disease in the lumbar spine / Russell Beal -- ch. 17. Shoulder repair / Shane D. Smith -- ch. 18. Drug-eluting stents: worth the risk? / Adam Estelle -- ch. 19. Treating aortic aneurysms / Rochellee Manygoats -- ch. 20. Abdominal aortic aneurysms: treatment and repair / John Ashton -- ch. 21. Heart valve stenosis and surgical repair: present and future / Scott Cooper -- ch. 22. Prosthetic vascular grants for treatment of peripheral arterial disease / Margo Ellis -- ch. 23. Small-diameter vascular grafts / Kyle Marr -- ch. 24. Spinal cord repair: current methods and limitations / Julie Lockwood -- ch. 25. Spinal cord repair for paraplegics / Jeffrey Calhoun -- ch. 26. Brain-machine interfaces / Matthew Goodman -- ch. 27. Stem cell research for treatment of Parkinson's disease / Colleen Young and Michael B. Fenn -- ch. 28. Tissue engineering for corneal regeneration / Ayyasamy Aruchamy -- ch. 29. Development of Lasik: laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis -- ch. 30. Hearing devices: experiencing a world of sound / Savannah Burnside -- ch. 31. Glass-ceramic dental restorations / Wolfram Holand and Volker M. Rheinberger -- ch. 32. Pain-desensitizing dental materials / David C. Greenspan -- ch. 33. Ethical considerations in biomaterials research and development / Mrinal K. Musiband and Subrata Saha -- ch. 34. The ending / Larry L. Hench

Sustainable Construction Technologies: Life-Cycle Assessment provides practitioners with a tool to help them select technologies that are financially advantageous even though they have a higher initial cost. Chapters provide an overview of LCA and how it can be used in conjunction with other indicators to manage construction. Topics covered include indoor environment quality, energy efficiency, transport, water reuse, materials, land use and ecology, and more. The book presents a valuable tool for construction professionals and researchers that want to apply sustainable construction techniques to their projects. Practitioners will find the international case studies and discussions of worldwide regulation and standards particularly useful. - Provides a framework for analyzing sustainable construction technologies and economic viability - Introduces key credit criteria for different sustainable construction technologies - Covers the most relevant construction areas - Includes technologies that can be employed during the process of construction, or to the product of the construction process, i.e. buildings - Analyzes international rating systems and provides supporting case studies

This guide to the designs, technologies and materials that really make green buildings work will help architects, specifiers and clients make informed choices, based on reliable technical information. Low Impact Building: Housing using Renewable Materials is about changing the way we build houses to reduce their ‘carbon’ footprint and to minimise environmental damage. One of the ways this can be done is by reducing the energy and environmental impact of the materials and resources used to construct buildings by choosing alternative products and systems. In particular, we need to recognise the potential for using natural and renewable construction materials as a way to reduce both carbon emissions but also build in a more benign and healthy way. This book is an account of some attempts to introduce this into mainstream house construction and the problems and obstacles that need to be overcome to gain wider acceptance of genuinely environmental construction methods. The book explores the nature of renewable materials in depth: where do they come from, what are they made of and how do they get into the construction supply chain? The difference between artisan and self-build materials like earth and straw, and more highly processed and manufactured products such as wood fibre insulation boards is explored. The author then gives an account of the Renewable House Programme in the UK explaining how it came about and how it was funded and managed by Government agencies. He analyses 12 case studies of projects from the Programme, setting out the design and methods of construction, buildability, environmental assessment tools used in the design, performance in terms of energy, air tightness, carbon footprint and post-occupancy issues. The policy context of energy and sustainability in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world is subjected to a critical examination to show how this affects the use of natural and renewable materials in the market for insulation and other construction materials. The debate over energy usage and embodied energy is discussed, as this is central to the reason why even many environmentally progressive people ignore the case for natural and renewable materials. The book offers a discussion of building physics and science, considering energy performance, moisture, durability, health and similar issues. A critical evaluation of assessment, accreditation and labelling of materials and green buildings is central to this as well as a review of some of the key research in the field.

A wide variety of materials are used in automotive parts, and most of them are mechanical components. Steels are most widely used for the power train and automotive body construction, and the materials and their processing have been steadily improved. The use of aluminium alloys and polymeric materials have been contributed to the reduction in fuel consumption rates due to the lightweight nature. This book reviews research on material and automotive technologies, as well as how materials work for technological innovations, with particular emphasis placed on the relation between materials science and the performance of automobiles.