Principles of Drilling and Excavation

Drilling in Extreme Environments: Penetration and Sampling on Earth and other Planets

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 31-140

  Han, Gang ^a   Dusseault, Maurice B ^b   Detournay, Emmanuel ^c   Thomson, Bradley J ^d   Zacny, Kris ^e  

^a HESS CORPORATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

^e HONEYBEE ROBOTICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Borehole; Drilling; Energy; Excavation; Rock breakage; Rocks; Stress

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889775989     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9783527626625.ch2     Document Type: Chapter

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