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This book includes the latest drilling and excavation principles and processes for terrestrial environments. The chapters cover the history of drilling and excavation, drill types, drilling techniques and their advantages and associated issues.
List of contents
Chapter 1 Introduction: Drilling as Means of Penetrating Solids..................................................1
Yoseph Bar-Cohen and Kris Zacny
Chapter 2 Design, Modeling, and Testing of Piezoelectric Actuated Percussive Drills..............23
Hyeong Jae Lee, Xiaoqi Bao, Mircea Badescu, Stewart Sherrit, and
Yoseph Bar-Cohen
Chapter 3 Subtractive and Additive Manufacturing Applied to Drilling Systems.......................39
Javaid Butt, Vahaj Mohaghegh, Shabnam Sadeghi-Esfahlani,
and Hassan Shirvani
Chapter 4 Onshore Drilling..........................................................................................................63
Alfred Eustes, Saleh Alhaidari, Ahmed Amer, Nicole Bourdon,
Deep Joshi, Kirtland McKenna, Ozan Uzun, and Zachary Zody
Chapter 5 Offshore Deepwater Drilling.....................................................................................107
Marcio Yamamoto, José Ricardo, and Kazuo Miura
Chapter 6 Recent Innovations in Drilling in Ice........................................................................157
Mary R. Albert, Kristina R. Slawny, Grant V. Boeckmann, Chris J. Gibson,
Jay A. Johnson, Keith Makinson, and Julius Rix
Chapter 7 Environmental Drilling/Sampling and Offshore Modeling Systems........................221
Roy Long, Peter Lucon, Ernie Majer, and Kelly Rose
Chapter 8 Drilling Automation..................................................................................................257
Richard Meehan
Chapter 9 Specialized Drilling Techniques for Medical Applications.......................................271
Yoseph Bar-Cohen, Hyeong Jae Lee, Mircea Badescu,
Stewart Sherrit, Xiaoqi Bao, and Yoseph Shalev
About the author
Dr. Yoseph Bar-Cohen is the Supervisor of the Electroactive Technologies Group (http://ndeaa.jpl.nasa.gov/) and a Senior Research Scientist at the Jet Propulsion Lab/Caltech, Pasadena, CA. In 1979, he received his Ph.D. in Physics from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. His research is focused on electro-mechanics including planetary sample handling mechanisms, novel actuators that are driven by such materials as piezoelectric and EAP (also known as artificial muscles) and biomimetics.
Dr. Kris Zacny is a Senior Research Scientist and Vice President of Exploration Technology Group at Honeybee Robotics, Altadena, CA. His expertise includes terrestrial and extraterrestrial robotic drilling and mining, sample handling and processing, geotechnical systems, and sensors. Dr. Zacny received his PhD from UC Berkeley (2005) in Geotechnical Engineering with focus on planetary drilling and space mining, ME from UC Berkeley (2001) in Petroleum Engineering, and BSc cum laude from U. of Cape Town (1997) in Mechanical Engineering. He spent several years working in South African mines and tested space drills in Antarctica, Arctic, Greenland, and the Atacama.
Summary
This book includes the latest drilling and excavation principles and processes for terrestrial environments. The chapters cover the history of drilling and excavation, drill types, drilling techniques and their advantages and associated issues.
