Strength and durability performance of waterless lunar concrete

43rd AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit - Meeting Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 11427-11438

  Toutanji, Houssam ^a,c,d   Glenn Loper, Becca ^a,c   Schrayshuen, Beth ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^c Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering ^*

^d AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LUNAR ENVIRONMENTS; PERMANENT LUNAR BASES; SCARCE RESOURCES;

BUILDING MATERIALS; DURABILITY; HYDRAULICS; PERFORMANCE; SILICA; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS; SULFUR;

CONCRETES;

EID: 30844454494     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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