Prospects for the Development of Construction Materials Science

Abstract

This paper is devoted to two similar objectives: to properly position the role of materials science and to outline probable directions of its future development. The latter is based on recent progress in fundamental and related applied sciences. At the same time, the proper usage of fundamental and applied sciences results' is quite limited due to highly variable properties of the components. This significantly limits the application of already obtained knowledge related to the mechanisms of interaction between the components during the structure formation processes.

Contemporaneously, the acquisition of new knowledge in construction materials science is based on the discovering the features of the structure formation mechanisms of materials, while considering the variability the previously being mentioned difference in characteristics.

In this article the author had expanded the systemic concepts in the construction materials science. As the typical complex technical systems, composite materials are able to self- organize even in non-equilibrium conditions. This assessment suggests the existence of synergistic effect. The method which can be used for the evaluation of the mentioned synergistic effect between control factors and structure's parameters, namely "successive displacements and variations" method - was offered. The method complements the well-known experimental design methods and is suitable for determination the areas of the factor space in which the detailed studies should be performed to determine the dependences between features of structure and process of the material's structure formation. These dependencies, in turn, can show up the emergence of a synergistic effect - the building material is starting to be form as a technical system.