Special Edition
🌒Practical Engineering Guides for Lunar Construction
Explore the Brief Tech Series: Terzaghi Re-Written for the Moon.
Topics include shear strength, slope stability, bearing capacity, earth pressures, settlements, and foundations. Worked examples show how to design trenches, berms, and mobility pads for future lunar missions.
Created for mission planners, contractors, and researchers, these briefs provide provisional but reliable methods aligned with Apollo data and ready for Artemis-era exploration.
COMING SOON
Bearing Capacity under Low Gravity
Footing design methods re-written for the Moon, where apparent cohesion and reduced gravity dominate foundation capacity.
Earth Pressure & Arching in Lunar Trenches
Active and passive earth pressures adapted to lunar regolith mechanics, with arching effects and cohesion corrections for trench stability.
Settlement without Consolidation
Settlement predictions for lunar structures, based on stress-dependent stiffness and long-term creep instead of pore-pressure dissipation.
Trafficability & Plate Sinkage
Mobility design for rovers and landers, using Bekker-type relations adapted to adhesion, low gravity, and regolith contact mechanics.
