37761
What Every Engineer Should Know About Corrosion
By P.A. Schweitzer
1987 by Marcel Dekker, 6" x 9-1/4", hardbound, 124 pages, figures, tables, and appendices, ISBN 0-8247-7755-7
$90.00

This book is intended to provide engineers, designers, architects, and all those involved with the selection of construction materials some basic information concerning the causes, prevention, and control of corrosion. Factors that must be evaluated before beginning the actual design are explained. Both general and specific types of corrosion and the conditions that enhance corrosion are described, as are methods for conducting corrosion test programs when it is necessary to gather such data.

The aim is to provide practical assistance in understanding what corrosion is, what causes it, and what can be done to prevent and/or control it. Since most designs incorporate materials other than strictly metallic materials, information is included on plastic materials, coatings, and linings.