The Ageing of Materials and Structures

Part I. Introduction

1. Urgency and Challenges of Ageing in Science and Engineering
Klaas Breugel

Part II. Fundamentals of Ageing

2. Investigation of Long-Term Behaviour of Elastomeric Seals for Transport and Storage Packages
A. Kömmling, D. Wolff, M. Jaunich

3. What Can Be Learnt from Ageing in Biology and Damage-Tolerant Biological Structures for Long-Lasting Biomimetic Materials?
Thomas Speck, Marc Thielen, Olga Speck

4. Mechanics of Ageing—From Building to Biological Materials
B. A. Schrefler, F. Pesavento, R. Santagiuliana, G. Sciumè

Part III. Ageing in Infrastructure

5. The Relevance of Ageing for Civil Infrastructure: The Profession, the Politics, the Classroom
David A. Lange

6. Study on Triage for Deteriorated Concrete Structures by JSCE-342
Shinichi Miyazato, Takashi Yamamoto, Ryousuke Takahashi

7. Ageing in Shallow Underground RC Culverts and Tunnels
M. Kunieda, X. Zhu, Y. Nakajima, S. Tanabe, K. Maekawa

Part IV. Ageing and Radiation

8. Radiation Shielding Properties and Freeze-Thaw Durability of High-Density Concrete for Storage of Radioactive Contaminated Soil in Fukushima
Sanjay Pareek, Yusuke Suzuki, Ken-ichi Kimura, Yusuke Fujikura, Yoshikazu Araki

9. Ageing Behaviour of Neutron/Irradiated Eurofer97
I. Carvalho, A. Fedorov, M. Kolluri, N. Luzginova, H. Schut, J. Sietsma

10. Ageing Management for Extended Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel
Y. Y. Liu

Part V. The Aesthetics of Ageing

11. Forever Young or Ageing Naturally?
Rob P. J. Hees, Silvia Naldini

12. The Noble Patina of Age
W. J. Quist, A. J. Bommel

13. The Ageing of the Creation
L. Melaard-Biçaçi, O. Çopuroğlu, E. Schlangen

Part VI. Modelling of Ageing Materials and Structures

14. Modeling Ageing Cementitious Pore Structure
Neven Ukrainczyk, Eddie A. B. Koenders

15. Introduction to Structural Ageing-Specific Functions for Computational Models Based on Synaptic Networks
G. Mavrikas, V. Spitas, C. Spitas

Part VII. Risk Based Models of Ageing

16. Stochastic Models for Risk and Failure Under Ageing
Jürg Hüsler

17. Statistical Models for Interval-Censored Time-to-Event Data
Geurt Jongbloed

18. Erratum to: The Ageing of Materials and Structures
Klaas Breugel, Dessi Koleva, Ton Beek

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