Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Nomenclature -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Fluids in Equilibrium in the Pore Space: Capillary Behavior -- 1.1. The pore space and its representation -- 1.1.1. Complexity of the pore space -- 1.1.2. Description of the microstructure -- 1.1.3. Porometric distribution: representation through cylindrical pores -- 1.2. Capillary pressureGL and interfacial mechanical equilibrium: Laplace's law -- 1.2.1. Two-phase occupation of the pore space -- 1.2.2. Capillarity: wetting and interfacial tension -- 1.2.3. Laplace's law: capillary pressure -- 1.2.4. Saturation: retention curves -- 1.2.5. Fluids and cohesion of granular media -- 1.3. Liquid-vapor thermodynamic equilibrium: Kelvin's law -- 1.3.1. The capillary couple of volatile liquid-inert gas -- 1.3.2. Partial pressure of vapor: Kelvin's law -- 1.3.3. Sorption isotherms: the capillary domain and the adsorption domain -- 1.3.4. State variables and "contingent variables" -- Chapter 2. Interfaces, Equilibrium of Solutions and Freezing in Porous Media: Thermodynamic Aspects -- 2.1. Interfaces and adsorption -- 2.1.1. Interfacial films -- 2.1.2. Capillary interface -- 2.1.3. Wetting and adsorption films -- 2.1.4. Intersection of the interfaces and wetting angles -- 2.1.5. Thermodynamics of interface and adsorption -- 2.2. Solutions in porous media: capillary potential and osmotic potential -- 2.2.1. Mechanical and thermodynamic equilibrium of solutions -- 2.2.2. Osmotic barriers -- 2.3. Freezing of the interstitial liquid -- 2.3.1. Mechanical and thermodynamic equilibrium -- 2.3.2. The freezing process: thermoporometry -- 2.4. Appendix: thermodynamic points of reference -- 2.4.1. Pressure in fluids -- 2.4.2. Principles of thermodynamics and state functions -- 2.4.3. Diphasic equilibrium of a pure body -- 2.4.4. Thermodynamics of mixtures.

2.4.5. Expression of state functions -- Chapter 3. Capillary Behavior and Porometry: Experimental Investigation -- 3.1. Retention curves -- 3.1.1. Retention curves and morphology of the pore space -- 3.1.2. Displacements of immiscible liquids -- 3.1.3. The liquid-gas couple -- 3.1.4. The van Genuchten Form -- 3.1.5. Orders of magnitude -- 3.1.6. The case of deformable materials -- 3.2. Metrology of capillarity -- 3.2.1. Measurement of capillary pressure: tensiometer -- 3.2.2. Measuring saturation -- 3.2.3. Choice and treatment of the samples -- 3.3. Experimental determination and interpretation of retention curves -- 3.3.1. Open air drainage and imbibition -- 3.3.2. (Richards) pressure plate -- 3.3.3. Mercury porometry -- 3.3.4. Pore space and interstitial fluids imaging -- 3.4. Appendices and exercises -- 3.4.1. Hydrostatics and retention curves -- 3.4.2. Retention curves of a material with rough porometry -- 3.4.3. Dripping and centrifugation -- 3.4.4. Porometric distributions and in situ hydrostatic equilibrium -- 3.4.5. Capillary barrier -- 3.4.6. The fate of the entrained air during imbibition -- 3.4.7. Nucleation during drainage -- 3.4.8. Basic principles of percolation theory -- Chapter 4. Sorption and Porometry: Experimental Investigations -- 4.1. Sorption metrology -- 4.1.1. Measurement of the saturation rate of vapor -- 4.1.2. Controlling the saturation rate of the vapor. Experimental determination of the sorption isotherms -- 4.2. Sorption isotherms interpretation -- 4.2.1. Capillary behavior and adsorption -- 4.2.2. Pure adsorption: BET interpretation and the specific surface -- 4.2.3. Capillary condensation: BJH interpretation -- 4.3. Thermal effects, adsorption heat and osmotic effects -- 4.3.1. The influence of temperature -- 4.3.2. Adsorption heat -- 4.3.3. Influence of dissolved species -- 4.4. Appendices and exercises.

4.4.1. Oven drying of a hygroscopic material: simplified study -- 4.4.2. Balancing kinetics in an osmotic-conditioning chamber -- 4.4.3. BJH porometry -- 4.4.4. Mercury porometry and BJH model -- 4.4.5. Determination of the adsorption heat -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index -- Summary of other Volumes in the Series.