Production of glass fibers for reinforcing lunar concrete

Collection of Technical Papers - 44th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting

Volumn 9, Issue , 2006, Pages 6335-6343

  Tucker, Dennis ^a,c   Ethridge, Ed ^a,d   Toutanji, Houssam ^b,e  

^a NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

^c Optics Branch/XD31

^d Exploration Research Branch/XD42

^e Magnel Laboratory for Concrete Research   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISCRETE RODS; IN-SITU LUNAR REGOLITH; LUNAR CONCRETE;

CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION; COOLING; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; GRAPHITE; HIGH TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; LUNAR MISSIONS;

GLASS FIBERS;

EID: 34250729233     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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