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W. D. Carrier
Researcher at California Institute of Technology
Publications - 19
Citations - 961
W. D. Carrier is an academic researcher from California Institute of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Lunar soil & Soil mechanics. The author has an hindex of 14, co-authored 18 publications receiving 906 citations.
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Mechanical properties of lunar soil - Density, porosity, cohesion, and angle of internal friction.
J. K. Mitchell,W. N. Houston,Ronald F. Scott,Nicholas C. Costes,W. D. Carrier,L. G. Bromwell +5 more
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The nature of lunar soil
TL;DR: The index properties of returned lunar soils from the United States Apollo and the Soviet Luna programs are reviewed in this paper, which includes lunar soil genesis, particle types, grain size distribution, grain shape distribution, specific gravity, minimum and maximum density, and relative density.
Apollo soil mechanics experiment S-200
TL;DR: The physical and mechanical properties of the unconsolidated lunar surface material samples that were obtained during the Apollo missions were studied in this paper, where a model for lunar soil behavior was described which considered soil characteristics, density and porosity, strength, compressibility, and trafficability parameters.
The Relative Density of Lunar Soil
TL;DR: The specific gravity and minimum and maximum bulk densities were determined for three one-gram lunar soil samples containing particles less than 1 mm in diameter as discussed by the authors, and the ranges in values were due to differences in the specific gravity, reentrant intragranular voids, particle shape, surface texture, and grain arrangements.