Building Habitats on the Moon
Engineering Approaches to Lunar Settlements
Part of the Springer Praxis Books book series (PRAXIS)
Also part of the Space Exploration book sub series (SPACEE)
About this book
Introduction
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.
Keywords
Economics of Lunar Colonies Human Colonization of the Moon Lunar Bases Lunar Engineering Mars Colonies Space Engineering Space Habitats Space Systems and Technologies Structural Engineering and Design for the Space Environment
Bibliographic information
- DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68244-0
- Copyright Information Springer International Publishing AG 2018
- Publisher Name Springer, Cham
- eBook Packages Physics and Astronomy
- Print ISBN 978-3-319-68242-6
- Online ISBN 978-3-319-68244-0
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