Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Human Health Hazards Associated with Asbestos in Building Materials
AsbestosAsbestos is a fibrous natural material that possesses outstanding technological properties exploited since the time of its discovery for the manufacture of various building materials. Unfortunately, as known since the mid-1950s, both humans and animals exposed to asbestos fibres may develop a number of lethal respiratory diseases. Consequently, international medical and health organizations have classified asbestos as a human carcinogen and many countries worldwide have banned its use. Besides a short historical chronicle, this chapter provides a classification of asbestos minerals, applications in building materials, as well as its toxicityToxicityand pathogenicityPathogenicity mechanisms. The global asbestos issue and its use as a building material today will be the core of the chapter. In addition, a section is dedicated to the description of the reclaim, disposalDisposaland recyclingRecyclingof asbestosAsbestos containing materials and a description of the substitutes of asbestos used today in building materials.
Human Health Hazards Associated with Asbestos in Building Materials
AsbestosAsbestos is a fibrous natural material that possesses outstanding technological properties exploited since the time of its discovery for the manufacture of various building materials. Unfortunately, as known since the mid-1950s, both humans and animals exposed to asbestos fibres may develop a number of lethal respiratory diseases. Consequently, international medical and health organizations have classified asbestos as a human carcinogen and many countries worldwide have banned its use. Besides a short historical chronicle, this chapter provides a classification of asbestos minerals, applications in building materials, as well as its toxicityToxicityand pathogenicityPathogenicity mechanisms. The global asbestos issue and its use as a building material today will be the core of the chapter. In addition, a section is dedicated to the description of the reclaim, disposalDisposaland recyclingRecyclingof asbestosAsbestos containing materials and a description of the substitutes of asbestos used today in building materials.
Human Health Hazards Associated with Asbestos in Building Materials
Malik, Junaid Ahmad (Herausgeber:in) / Marathe, Shriram (Herausgeber:in) / Gualtieri, Alessandro F. (Autor:in) / Lassinantti Gualtieri, Magdalena (Autor:in) / Scognamiglio, Valentina (Autor:in) / Di Giuseppe, Dario (Autor:in)
Ecological and Health Effects of Building Materials ; Kapitel: 16 ; 297-325
08.08.2021
29 pages
Aufsatz/Kapitel (Buch)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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