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contributor authorStewart W. Johnson
contributor authorKoon Meng Chua
date accessioned2017-05-08T23:40:13Z
date available2017-05-08T23:40:13Z
date copyrightJune, 1993
date issued1993
identifier issn0003-6900
identifier otherAMREAD-25646#285_1.pdf
identifier urihttp://yetl.yabesh.ir/yetl/handle/yetl/111263
description abstractKnowledge of the lunar regolith is essential to success in lunar missions whether crewed or robotic. The regolith is the loose material overlying more intact strata on the Moon. It varies in thickness from several meters on the maria or lunar seas to many meters on the highlands of the Moon. The regolith is the material humans walked and drove on from 1969 to 1972. In the future, people will use it for radiation protection and as a resource for recovery of oxygen, silicon, iron, aluminum, and titanium. Implanted in the regolith by the solar wind are recoverable amounts of volatiles such as hydrogen and helium. Increasing our knowledge of the mechanical properties of the regolith will enable constructors of the 21st Century to build habitats, do mining, establish manufacturing, and erect telescopes on the Moon. We already know much of the regolith from robotic and astronaut missions to the Moon. There is much more to be learned.
publisherThe American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
titleProperties and Mechanics of the Lunar Regolith
typeJournal Paper
journal volume46
journal issue6
journal titleApplied Mechanics Reviews
identifier doi10.1115/1.3120358
journal fristpage285
journal lastpage300
identifier eissn0003-6900
keywordsRobotics
keywordsHelium
keywordsHydrogen
keywordsOxygen
keywordsThickness
keywordsTitanium
keywordsSeas
keywordsAstronauts
keywordsAluminum
keywordsSolar wind
keywordsMining
keywordsRadiation (Physics)
keywordsManufacturing
keywordsFerrosilicon AND Mechanical properties
treeApplied Mechanics Reviews:;1993:;volume( 046 ):;issue: 006
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