High Performance Construction Materials

This is the inaugural volume of the book series ?Engineering Materials for Technological Needs?. The technological needs relevant to this series include those that are related to the electronic, optical, magnetic, thermal, electrochemical, energy, environmental, structural, construction, aerospace, automobile, security, manufacturing and medical industries. Each book in the series addresses materials that serve various functions in a particular area of technological need by describing the relevant scientific concepts, the status of the technological need, the limitations of the technology, the pros and cons of the materials available, how the materials are applied, evaluated and fabricated, how various materials are integrated to form an assembly that can be used in practice, the performance and durability of the competing materials for each specific application, and the future directions.