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Apollo 12 Soil Mechanics Investingation
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Synopsis During the sojourn of the second manned space-craft on the moon in Sovember 1969, the astronauts C. Conrad and A. Bean performed a number of tasks of interest from a soil mechanics point of view. They crossed the lunar surface, penetrating it with a variety of objects including core tube sampling devices, and visited an unmanned Surveyor space- craft which had landed on and communicated from the moon 31 months previously. The mechanical behaviour of the lunar soil during these activities has been analysed and is found to be consistent with the properties of a slightly cohesive medium dense granular soil (under lunar gravity) as deduced from previous Surveyor experiments. The grain size dis- tribution and mechanical behaviour of the lunar soil samples which were brought back to Earth are also examined. Pendant le séjour sur la lune du second engin spatial habité en Novembre 1969, les astronautes C. Conrad et A. Bean exécutérent un certain nombre de travaux relevants de la mécanique des sols. Parmi ceux-ci ils percèrent la surface de la lune et y enfonèbrent un ensemble d'instruments, en parti-culier des tubes de carottier. Ils entreprirent aussi une inspection de Surveyor, engin lunaire non habité qui avait aluni et communiqué avec la terre 31 mois auparavant. Le comportement méchanique du sol lunaire durant ces activités est analysé ici. Ses propriétés peuvent être assimilées à celles d'un sol formé par un milieu granulaire moyennement dense et faiblement cohérent (soumis à la gravité lunaire); elles sont comparables à celles déduites des précé-dentes expériences Surveyor. La granulométrie et les propriétés méchaniques des échantillons de sol lunaire rapportés sont aussi examinés.
Title: Apollo 12 Soil Mechanics Investingation
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Synopsis During the sojourn of the second manned space-craft on the moon in Sovember 1969, the astronauts C.
Conrad and A.
Bean performed a number of tasks of interest from a soil mechanics point of view.
They crossed the lunar surface, penetrating it with a variety of objects including core tube sampling devices, and visited an unmanned Surveyor space- craft which had landed on and communicated from the moon 31 months previously.
The mechanical behaviour of the lunar soil during these activities has been analysed and is found to be consistent with the properties of a slightly cohesive medium dense granular soil (under lunar gravity) as deduced from previous Surveyor experiments.
The grain size dis- tribution and mechanical behaviour of the lunar soil samples which were brought back to Earth are also examined.
Pendant le séjour sur la lune du second engin spatial habité en Novembre 1969, les astronautes C.
Conrad et A.
Bean exécutérent un certain nombre de travaux relevants de la mécanique des sols.
Parmi ceux-ci ils percèrent la surface de la lune et y enfonèbrent un ensemble d'instruments, en parti-culier des tubes de carottier.
Ils entreprirent aussi une inspection de Surveyor, engin lunaire non habité qui avait aluni et communiqué avec la terre 31 mois auparavant.
Le comportement méchanique du sol lunaire durant ces activités est analysé ici.
Ses propriétés peuvent être assimilées à celles d'un sol formé par un milieu granulaire moyennement dense et faiblement cohérent (soumis à la gravité lunaire); elles sont comparables à celles déduites des précé-dentes expériences Surveyor.
La granulométrie et les propriétés méchaniques des échantillons de sol lunaire rapportés sont aussi examinés.
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