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

Description

This two-volume set includes the latest principles behind the processes of drilling and excavation on Earth and other planets. It covers the categories of drills, the history of drilling and excavation, various drilling techniques and associated issues, rock coring (acquisition, damage control, caching and transport, restoration of "in-situ" conditions and data interpretation), as well as unconsolidated soil drilling and borehole stability. It describes the drilling process from basic science and associated process of breaking and penetrating various media and the required hardware and the process of excavation and analysis of the sampled media. Cover Volume 01 Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgments Editors List of Contributors Chapter 1: Introduction: Drilling as Means of Penetrating Solids Chapter 2: Design, Modeling, and Testing of Piezoelectric Actuated Percussive Drills Chapter 3: Subtractive and Additive Manufacturing Applied to Drilling Systems Chapter 4: Onshore Drilling Chapter 5: Offshore Deepwater Drilling Chapter 6: Recent Innovations in Drilling in Ice Chapter 7: Environmental Drilling/Sampling and Offshore Modeling Systems Chapter 8: Drilling Automation Chapter 9: Specialized Drilling Techniques for Medical Applications Index Volume 02 Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgments Editors List of Contributors Chapter 1: Extraterrestrial Drilling and Excavation Chapter 2: Novel Methods for Deep Ice Access on Planetary Bodies Chapter 3: Scientific Rationale for Planetary Drilling Chapter 4: Biological Contamination Control and Planetary Protection Measures as Applied to Sample Acquisition Index