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Building Habitats on the Moon Engineering Approaches to Lunar Settlements

:	Haym Benaroya
:	Building Habitats on the Moon Engineering Approaches to Lunar Settlements
:	Springer-Verlag
:	9783319682440
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:	CHF 43.50
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:	Luft- und Raumfahrttechnik
:	English

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Designing a habitat for the lunar surface? You will need to know more than structural engineering. There are the effects of meteoroids, radiation, and low gravity. Then there are the psychological and psychosocial aspects of living in close quarters, in a dangerous environment, far away from home. All these must be considered when the habitat is sized, materials specified, and structure designed.

This book provides an overview of various concepts for lunar habitats and structural designs and characterizes the lunar environment - the technical and the nontechnical. The designs take into consideration psychological comfort, structural strength against seismic and thermal activity, as well as internal pressurization and 1/6 g. Also discussed are micrometeoroid modeling, risk and redundancy as well as probability and reliability, with an introduction to analytical tools that can be useful in modeling uncertainties.

Dr. Haym Benaroya is a Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Rutgers University. His research interests are focused on the conceptualization and analysis of structures placed in challenging environments. Primary examples include offshore drilling structures, structures subjected to explosions, and lunar surface structures for manned habitation.
Dr. Benaroya earned his B.E. degree from The Cooper Union in New York, and his MS and PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to joining Rutgers University in 1989, he was a senior research engineer at Weidlinger Associates in New York for eight years with responsibilities for a number of defense-related studies. He is the author of over 70 refereed journal publications, two text books - one in Vibration and the other in Probabilistic Modeling - and two research monographs with two former PhD students on structural dynamics in the ocean. His book From Dust to Gold: Building a Future on the Moon and Mars (Springer Praxis) was designated the 2012 Best Engineering Sciences Book by the International Academy of Astronautics.
Dr. Benaroya is an elected member of the International Academy of Astronautics.

	Contents	6
	Acknowledgements	9
	Dedication	10
	About the Author	11
	Preface	12
	1: Thoughts on the Moon	16
	1.1 J.F.K. AT RICE UNIVERSITY	16
	1.2 Edward Teller: Thoughts on a Lunar Base	21
	Reference	26
	2: Overview and context	27
	2.1 Why the Moon, and how	27
	Why the Moon, and how – addendum	30
	2.2 Other Thoughts on a Lunar Base	33
	2.3 The Historical Dimension	36
	2.4 The Economic Justifications	37
	2.5 Agreements and Ethics	43
	2.6 Pioneering Visions	44
	2.7 Future Histories	48
	2.8 Interview with David Livingston	49
	Brief Biography	49
	Our Interview	50
	References	55
	3: The lunar environment	57
	3.1 Partial gravity	62
	3.2 Interview With James Logan	63
	Brief Biography	63
	Our Interview	64
	3.3 Radiation	75
	Active and Passive Shielding	83
	3.4 Regolith	86
	3.5 Soil mechanics	88
	3.6 Abrasion	94
	Quotes	96
	References	96
	4: Structures	100
	4.1 Classes	100
	Types of structures	100
	Types of applications	101
	Application requirements	102
	Material considerations	102
	Structures and technology drivers	103
	Requirement definitions and evaluations	104
	4.2 Concepts and Designs	104
	4.3 Lunar Architecture and Engineering	107
	4.4 Interview with Marc Cohen	108
	4.5 Rigid structures	120
	4.6 Inflatables	129
	Early Concepts	132
	TransHab	140
	Inflatable and Rigidizable	142
	4.7 Interview with David Cadogan	145
	References	152
	5: Habitat studies	157
	5.1 Frameworks	167
	5.2 Structures and living on the Moon	172
	Human Psychology	175
	Human Physiology	178
	Plants	182
	Quotes	183
	References	184
	6: Lunar-based astronomy	187
	Quotes	191
	References	192
	7: Materials and ISRU	193
	7.1 Interview with Donald Rapp	198
	Brief Biography	198
	Our Interview	199
	7.2 Lava Tubes	202
	Quotes	209
	References	209
	8: Structural design of a lunar habitat	212
	8.1 Habitat Geometry and Loads	212
	8.2 Habitat Details	216
	8.3 Habitat Erection and Appearance	218
	References	222
	9: Thermal design	223
	9.1 A STATIC ANALYSIS	225
	References	238
	10: Probability theory and seismic design	239
	10.1 A Definition for Probability	240
	10.2 Random Variables	241
	10.3 Mathematical Expectation	245
	10.4 Useful Probability Densities	246
	10.5 Random Processes	247
	10.6 Power Spectrum	250
	10.7 Random Vibration	251
	10.8 Seismic Activity	253
	10.9 A Seismic Design	254
	References	263
	11: Reliability and damage	264
	11.1 Risk	265
	11.2 Risk at a Lunar Base	267
	11.3 Reliability Engineering	277
	11.4 Failure Types	281
	11.5 Fatigue Life Prediction	286
	11.6 Micrometeoroids	290
	11.7 Concluding Comments	298
	References	299
	12: Airplanes, redundancy and lunar habitats	301
	12.1 Aircraft Certification	302
	12.2 Redundancy	303
	12.3 Accidents	305
	12.4 Regulation and Certification	307
	12.5 Lessons Learned	309
	12.6 Lunar Structures	311
	References	313
	13: Advanced methodologies	314
	13.1 Dempster-Shafer Theory	314
	13.2 Performance-Based Engineering	315
	References	320
	14: Concluding thoughts	322
	Index	325