Advances in Terrestrial and Extraterrestrial Drilling:: Ground, Ice, and Underwater

ISBN-13: 9781138341500 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 648 str.

Yoseph Bar-Cohen; Kris Zacny

Opis

This book will include the latest principles behind the processes of drilling and excavation on Earth and other planets. It will cover the categories of drills, the history of drilling and excavation, various drilling techniques and associated issues, including rock coring as well as unconsolidated soil drilling and borehole stability.

Spis treści

Volume 1: Advances in Terrestrial Drilling.  1. Introduction – drilling as means of penetrating solids.  2. Design, modeling and testing of piezoelectric actuated percussive drills.  3. Subtractive and additive manufacturing applied to drilling systems.  4. Onshore Drilling.  5. Offshore Deep-Water Drilling.  6. Recent Innovations in Drilling in Ice.  7. Environmental Drilling / Sampling and Offshore Modeling Systems.  8. Drilling Automation.  9. Specialized drilling techniques for medical applications.  Volume 2: Advances in Extraterrestrial Drilling.  1. Extraterrestrial Drilling and Excavation.  2. Novel Methods for Deep Ice Access on Planetary Bodies.  3. Scientific rationale for planetary drilling.  4. Biological Contamination Control and Planetary Protection Measures as Applied to Sample Acquisition.