ABSTRACT
This two-volume set includes the latest principles behind the processes of drilling and excavation on Earth and other planets. It covers the categories of drills, the history of drilling and excavation, various drilling techniques and associated issues, rock coring (acquisition, damage control, caching and transport, restoration of "in-situ" conditions and data interpretation), as well as unconsolidated soil drilling and borehole stability. It describes the drilling process from basic science and associated process of breaking and penetrating various media and the required hardware and the process of excavation and analysis of the sampled media.
Volume 1: Advances in Terrestrial Drilling. 1. Introduction – drilling as means of penetrating solids. 2. Design, modeling and testing of piezoelectric actuated percussive drills. 3. Subtractive and additive manufacturing applied to drilling systems. 4. Onshore Drilling. 5. Offshore Deep-Water Drilling. 6. Recent Innovations in Drilling in Ice. 7. Environmental Drilling / Sampling and Offshore Modeling Systems. 8. Drilling Automation. 9. Specialized drilling techniques for medical applications. Volume 2: Advances in Extraterrestrial Drilling. 1. Extraterrestrial Drilling and Excavation. 2. Novel Methods for Deep Ice Access on Planetary Bodies. 3. Scientific rationale for planetary drilling. 4. Biological Contamination Control and Planetary Protection Measures as Applied to Sample Acquisition.
