Download or read book Advances in Terrestrial and Extraterrestrial Drilling: written by Yoseph Bar-Cohen and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2021-08-26 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers both the most recent advances in terrestrial and extraterrestrial drilling. Discusses drilling in the broadest range of media including ground, ice, underwater and planetary surfaces from shallow to very deep. Provides a comprehensive description of key drilling techniques and the efforts to develop unified approach to assessing the required tools for given drilling requirements. Discusses how environment affects drilling and approaches to addressing the effects and current challenges of drilling and excavation on other planets. Examines novel drilling and excavation approaches.