Research Lays Foundation For Building On The Moon ? Or Anywhere Else

The key to the stability of any building is its foundation, but it is difficult to test some building sites in advance ? such as those on the moon. New research from North Carolina State University is helping resolve the problem by using computer models that can utilize a small sample of soil to answer fundamental questions about how soil at a building site will interact with foundations.

?If you are going to build a large structure, you have to run a lot of tests on the building site to  [...]

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