Building Habitats on the Moon Engineering Approaches to Lunar Settlements /

• Main Author: Benaroya, Haym (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Space Exploration
• Subjects: Aerospace engineering.; Astronautics.; Space sciences.; Buildings-Design and construction.; Building.; Construction.; Engineering, Architectural.; Planetology.; Aerospace Technology and Astronautics.; Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics).; Building Construction and Design.

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. A...

Table of Contents:

• Acknowledgements
• Dedication
• About the Author- Preface
• Chapter 1: Thoughts on the Moon
• Chapter 2: Overview and context
• Chapter 3: The lunar environment
• Chapter 4: Structures
• Chapter 5: Habitat studies
• Chapter 6: Lunar-based astronomy
• Chapter 7: Materials and ISRU
• Chapter 8: Structural design of a lunar habitat
• Chapter 9: Thermal design
• Chapter 10: Preliminary probability theory
• Chapter 11: Reliability and damage
• Chapter 12: Airplanes, redundancy and lunar habitats
• Chapter 13: Advanced methodologies
• Chapter 14: Concluding thoughts
• Index.