To advance long-term human exploration of the Moon and beyond, developing resilient deep space habitats capable of autonomous operation during both manned and unmanned periods is crucial. Unlike Earth-based buildings, which allow for immediate maintenance and access to external resources, deep space habitats will face significant challenges in addressing damages and disruptions due to the unique environmental conditions in space. Potential hazards such as micrometeorite impacts, moonquakes, internal fires, sensor failures, and power outages pose serious threats to habitat functionality. Given the inevitability of such disturbances, resilient designs would not only minimize the likelihood of system failure but also mitigate overall mission risks. Therefore, evaluating the resilience of deep space habitats under various potential disturbances during the early design phase is necessary before deployment. This paper introduces a resilience-based design evaluation framework for deep space habitats, using a deterministic structural-based habitat simulator (HabSim) along with a performance-based quantitative resilience assessment. HabSim simulates various habitat behaviors to assess the performance and resilience of habitat designs using well-established resilience assessment metrics. An illustrative case study demonstrates the effectiveness and capabilities of the proposed evaluation framework.


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    Title :

    Design Evaluation of Resilient Deep Space Habitats with Numerical Habitat Simulator


    Contributors:

    Published in:

    AIAA Journal ; 63 , 4 ; 1580-1595


    Publication date :

    2025-04-01




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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