Percussive augmenter of rotary drills (PARoD)

Mircea Badescu; Jennifer Hasenoehrl; Yoseph Bar-Cohen; Stewart Sherrit; Xiaoqi Bao; Zensheu Chang; Patrick Ostlund; Jack Aldrich

doi:10.1117/12.2010316

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19 April 2013 Percussive augmenter of rotary drills (PARoD)

Mircea Badescu, Jennifer Hasenoehrl, Yoseph Bar-Cohen, Stewart Sherrit, Xiaoqi Bao, Zensheu Chang, Patrick Ostlund, Jack Aldrich

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Proceedings Volume 8692, Sensors and Smart Structures Technologies for Civil, Mechanical, and Aerospace Systems 2013; 86921Q (2013) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2010316
Event: SPIE Smart Structures and Materials + Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring, 2013, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Increasingly, NASA exploration mission objectives include sample acquisition tasks for in-situ analysis or for potential sample return to Earth. To address the requirements for samplers that could be operated at the conditions of the various bodies in the solar system, a piezoelectric actuated percussive sampling device was developed that requires low preload (as low as 10N) which is important for operation at low gravity. This device can be made as light as 400g, can be operated using low average power, and can drill rocks as hard as basalt. Significant improvement of the penetration rate was achieved by augmenting the hammering action by rotation and use of a fluted bit to provide effective cuttings removal. Generally, hammering is effective in fracturing drilled media while rotation of fluted bits is effective in cuttings removal. To benefit from these two actions, a novel configuration of a percussive mechanism was developed to produce an augmenter of rotary drills. The device was called Percussive Augmenter of Rotary Drills (PARoD). A breadboard PARoD was developed with a 6.4 mm (0.25 in) diameter bit and was demonstrated to increase the drilling rate of rotation alone by 1.5 to over 10 times. The test results of this configuration were published in a previous publication. Further, a larger PARoD breadboard with a 50.8 mm (2.0 in) diameter bit was developed and tested. This paper presents the design, analysis and test results of the large diameter bit percussive augmenter.

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Mircea Badescu, Jennifer Hasenoehrl, Yoseph Bar-Cohen, Stewart Sherrit, Xiaoqi Bao, Zensheu Chang, Patrick Ostlund, and Jack Aldrich "Percussive augmenter of rotary drills (PARoD)", Proc. SPIE 8692, Sensors and Smart Structures Technologies for Civil, Mechanical, and Aerospace Systems 2013, 86921Q (19 April 2013); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2010316

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