Drilling in Extreme Environments: Penetration and Sampling on Earth and other Planets

• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 814
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Uniquely comprehensive and up to date, this book covers terrestrial as well as extraterrestrial drilling and excavation, combining the technology of drilling with the state of the art in robotics. The authors come from industry and top ranking public and corporate research institutions and provide here real-life examples, problems, solutions and case studies, backed by color photographs throughout.
The result is a must-have for oil companies and all scientists involved in planetary research with robotic probes.
With a foreword by Harrison "Jack" Schmitt -- the first geologist to drill on the moon.

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Chapter 1 Drills as Tools for Media Penetration and Sampling (pages 1–29): Yoseph Bar?Cohen and Kris Zacny
Chapter 2 Principles of Drilling and Excavation (pages 31–140): Gang Han, Maurice B. Dusseault, Emmanuel Detournay, Bradley J. Thomson and Kris Zacny
Chapter 3 Ground Drilling and Excavation (pages 141–220): Alfred William (Bill) Eustes, William W. Fleckenstein, Leslie Gertsch, Ning Lu, Michael S. Stoner and Alfred Tischler
Chapter 4 Ice Drilling and Coring (pages 221–308): Charles R. Bentley, Bruce R. Koci, Laurent J.?M. Augustin, Robin J. Bolsey, James A. Green, Jay D. Kyne, Donald A. Lebar, William P. Mason, Alexander J. Shturmakov, Hermann F. Engelhardt, William D. Harrison, Michael H. Hecht and Victor Zagorodnov
Chapter 5 Seafloor Drilling (pages 309–345): Tim McGinnis
Chapter 6 Extraterrestrial Drilling and Excavation (pages 347–557): Kris Zacny, Yoseph Bar?Cohen, Kiel Davis, Pierre Coste, Gale Paulsen, Stewart Sherrit, Jeffrey George, Brian Derkowski, Steve Gorevan, Dale Boucher, Jose Guerrero, Takashi Kubota, Bradley J. Thomson, Scott Stanley, Peter Thomas, Nicholas Lan, Christopher McKay, Tullis C. Onstot, Carol Stoker, Brian Glass, Sachiko Wakabayashi, Lyle Whyte, Gianfranco Visentin, Edoardo Re, Lutz Richter, Mircea Badescu, Xiaoqi Bao, Roger Fincher, Takeshi Hoshino, Piergiovanni Magnani and Carlo Menon
Chapter 7 Planetary Sample Handling and Processing (pages 559–641): Kris Zacny, Antonio Diaz?Calderon, Paul G. Backes, Kiel Davis, Chris Leger, Erik Mumm, Edward Tunstel, Jason Herman, Gale Paulsen and Yoseph Bar?Cohen
Chapter 8 Instruments for In Situ Sample Analysis (pages 643–705): Luther W. Beegle, Sabrina Feldman, Paul V. Johnson and Christopher B. Dreyer
Chapter 9 Contamination Control and Planetary Protection (pages 707–739): J. Andy Spry
Chapter 10 Drilling Capabilities, Challenges, and Future Possibilities (pages 741–754): Yoseph Bar?Cohen and Kris Zacny