Abstract
Materials as constituents of products or components of technical systems rarely exist in isolation and many must cope with exposure in the natural world. This chapter describes methods that simulate how a material is influenced through contact with living systems such as microorganisms and arthropods. Both unwanted and desirable interactions are considered. This biogenic impact on materials is intimately associated with the environment to which the material is exposed (Materials-Environment Interaction, Chap. 15). Factors such as moisture, temperature and availability of food sources all have a significant influence on biological systems. Corrosion (Chap. 12) and wear (Chap. 13) can also be induced or enhanced in the presence of microorganisms. Section 14.1 introduces the categories between desired (biodegradation) and undesired (biodeterioration) biological effects on materials. It also introduces the role of biocides for the protection of materials. Section 14.2 describes the testing of wood as a building material especially against microorganisms and insects. Section 14.3 characterizes the test methodologies for two other groups of organic materials, namely polymers (Sect. 14.3.1) and paper and textiles (Sect. 14.3.2). Section 14.4 deals with the susceptibility of inorganic materials such as metals (Sect. 14.4.1), concrete (Sect. 14.4.2) and ceramics (Sect. 14.4.3) to biogenic impact. Section 14.5 treats the testing methodology concerned with the performance of coatings and coating materials. In many of these tests specific strains of organisms are employed. It is vital that these strains retain their ability to utilize/attack the substrate from which they were isolated, even when kept for many years in the laboratory. Section 14.6 therefore considers the importance of maintaining robust and representative test organisms that are as capable of utilizing a substrate as their counterparts in nature such that realistic predictions of performance can be made.
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Abbreviations
- AFM:
-
atomic force microscopy
- AFNOR:
-
Association Française de Normalisation
- ARDRA:
-
amplified Ribosomal DNA Restriction Analysis
- ASTM:
-
American Society for Testing and Materials
- CEN:
-
European Standardisation Organisation
- DIN:
-
Deutsches Institut für Normung
- DOC:
-
dissolved organic carbon
- EPS:
-
extracellular polymeric substances
- FISH:
-
fluorescence in situ hybridization
- GC:
-
gas chromatography
- IBRG:
-
International Biodeterioration Research Group
- ICR:
-
ion cyclotron resonance
- ISO:
-
International Organization for Standardization
- JIS:
-
Japanese Standardization Organization
- MIC:
-
microbially induced corrosion
- MITI:
-
Ministry of International Trade and Industry of Japan
- MOE:
-
modulus of elasticity
- OECD:
-
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
- PCR:
-
polymerase chain reaction
- PVC:
-
polyvinyl chloride
- RAPD:
-
random amplified polymorphic DNA
- RFLP:
-
restriction fragment length polymorphism
- RH:
-
relative humidity
- SCLM:
-
scanning confocal laser microscopy
- SEM:
-
scanning electron microscope
- UNI:
-
Ente Nationale Italiano di Unificazione
- VOC:
-
volatile organic carbon
- rRNA:
-
ribosomal RNA
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