Water transport in brick stone and concrete

By Christopher Hall, William D. Hoff

Moisture dynamics in brick, stone and concrete has a controlling influence on the durability and performance of the built environment.

Water transport in brick stone and concrete provides a unified description of transport processes involving saturated and unsaturated flow in porous inorganic materials and structures.

Water transport in brick stone and concrete sets out fundamental physics and materials science, mathematical description and experimental measurement as a basis for engineering design and construction practice.

Now in its third edition, Water transport in brick stone and concrete combines a systematic presentation of the scientific and technical principles with new analyses of topics such as sorption isotherms, temperature dependence of sportively, time-dependent properties of cement-based materials, layered materials, air-trapping and driving rain.

It serves as an authoritative reference for research workers, practicing engineers and students of civil, building, architectural and materials engineering. Much of the fundamental work is relevant to engineers in soil science and geotechnics, as well as oilfield, chemical and process engineering.

We thank the University of Edinburgh and the University of Manchester, and the UK Natural Environment Research Council and the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council for research support.

We are indebted to David Benavente, Tobit Curteis, Rick Davis, Amanda Goode, Andrea Hamilton, Ioannis Ioannou, Gloria Lo, Victoria Pugsley, Maurice Rogers, Jason Weiss, Moira Wilson and Hong Zhang for their kindness in providing advice, comments, information, data, publications, illustrations and materials.