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Materials Construction: Any major highway organization will include departments concerned with location and design, construction, maintenance, testing, and physical research, finance and business management, planning and economics, bridges and other structures, and legal matters. Within the departments there will be specialists in various lines of work, such as the analysis of soils, roadside improvement, expressway design, chemistry of materials construction, traffic studies, aerial mapping, and the construction of each of the principal types of road surfaces.
Ceramic fuel elements are of increasing importance in the generation of nuclear power. Approximately 90% of newly planned nuclear electric power installations will contain enriched uranium dioxide (UO»), a ceramic material, as the fuel element. Many of the structural elements of the reactors, from the construction materials construction to the control rods (which are usually boron compounds or rare-earth oxides), are also ceramic materials construction.
Water employed primarily as a coolant does not have to be exceptionally free from dissolved material, and even seawater is used if a certain amount of corrosion can be tolerated or if it is economical to employ highly resistant materials construction of construction.
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