Shelter structures on the moon, even in early phases of exploration, should incorporate lunar materials as much as possible. This Technical Memorandum details the design and construction of a prototype for a one-piece regolith bag unpressurized garage concept and a materials testing program to investigate six candidate fabrics to learn how they might perform in the lunar environment. The conceptualization was that a lightweight fabric form be launched from Earth and landed on the lunar surface to be robotically filled with raw lunar regolith. Regolith bag fabric candidates included: Vectran(TM), Nextel(TM), Gore PTFE Fabric(TM), Zylon(TM), Twaron(TM), and Nomex(TM). Tensile (including post radiation exposure), fold, abrasion, and hypervelocity impact testing were performed under ambient conditions, and also performed under cold and elevated temperatures. In some cases, Johnson Space Center lunar simulant (JSC-1) was used in conjunction with testing. A series of preliminary structures was constructed during final prototype design based on the principles of the classic masonry arch. The prototype was constructed of Kevlar(TM) and filled with vermiculite. The structure is free-standing, but has not yet been load tested. Future plans would be to construct higher fidelity prototypes and to conduct appropriate tests of the structure.


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    Titel :

    A One-Piece Lunar Regolith Bag Garage Prototype


    Beteiligte:
    Smithers, G. A. (Autor:in) / Nehls, M. K. (Autor:in) / Hovater, M. A. (Autor:in) / Evans, S. W. (Autor:in) / Miller, J. S. (Autor:in) / Broughton, R. M., Jr. (Autor:in) / Beale, D. (Autor:in) / Kilinc-Balci, F. (Autor:in)

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2007-09-01


    Medientyp :

    Report


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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