Building Habitats on the Moon : Engineering Approaches to Lunar Settlements Acknowledgements Dedication About the Author Preface Chapter 1: Thoughts on the Moon Chapter 2: Overview and context Chapter 3: The lunar environment Chapter 4: Structures Chapter 5: Habitat studies Chapter 6: Lunar based astronomy Chapter 7: Materials and ISRU Chapter 8: Structural design of a lunar habitat Chapter 9: Thermal design Chapter 10: Preliminary probability theory Chapter 11: Reliability and damage Chapter 12: Airplanes redundancy and lunar habitats Chapter 13: Advanced methodologies Chapter 14: Concluding thoughts Index. Designing a habitat for the lunar surface You will need to know more than structural engineering. There are the effects of meteoroids radiation and low gravity. Then there are the psychological and psychosocial aspects of living in close quarters in a dangerous environment far away from home. All these must be considered when the habitat is sized materials specified and structure designed. This book provides an overview of various concepts for lunar habitats and structural designs and characterizes the lunar environment the technical and the nontechnical. The designs take into consideration psychological comfort structural strength against seismic and thermal activity as well as internal pressurization and 1 6 g. Also discussed are micrometeoroid modeling risk and redundancy as well as probability and reliability with an introduction to analytical tools that can be useful in modeling uncertainties.