Abstract
An igloo-shaped magnesium structure, supported on a sintered regolith, covered by sandbags of regolith shielding, and made using rapid manufacturing technologies is proposed as a potential design of a lunar structure. Also, a thermal analysis is carried out to study the effect of the regolith shielding as well as the sensitivity of such designs to measurement uncertainties of regolith and sintered thermal properties. It is shown that 3-m-thick regolith shielding can insulate the structure regardless of its location on the Moon.
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Volume 28 • Issue 1 • January 2015
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Received: May 29, 2013
Accepted: Sep 4, 2013
Published online: Jun 17, 2014
Discussion open until: Nov 17, 2014
Published in print: Jan 1, 2015
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