Viability of sulfur "concrete" on the moon: Environmental considerations

Collection of Technical Papers - 44th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting

Volumn 9, Issue , 2006, Pages 6321-6326

  Grugel, Richard N ^a,c   Toutanji, Houssam ^b,d  

^a NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

^c Exploration Directorate   (Iran)

^d Civil and Environmental Engineering Department

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LUNAR CONSTRUCTION MATERIAL; LUNAR ORE;

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING; CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION; LUNAR MISSIONS;

SPACE RESEARCH;

EID: 34250741037     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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