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#1 2025-09-05 18:58:44
- Void
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Tunnel Arch Build Method
Actually an arch of blocks: https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/r … 7ce146a0fd Quote:
No Mortar, No Cement… Just Bricks and a Truck! ? #tunnel #engineering #truck #construction
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Here is another video: https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/r … &FORM=VIRE Quote:
Truck Builds Tunnels Without Concrete—You Won’t Believe How!
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So very clever. The question is how to make the bricks then? For the Moon, For Mars?
Ideally I would want to seem them sintered from regolith, for the Moon. I don't know if that can be done.
No, I am told Iron cannot be worked in a Mond process.
Well, I am thinking of Iron anyway, as a mortar on the Moon but not Mars.
I am hoping that the use of inductive heating could melt it if it were placed between blocks.
On the Moon unless escaping gasses would rust the Iron, I don't expect the Iron to rust.
On the Moon the blocks would weigh 1/6th, so the "Truck" would not have to be as sturdy.
Perhaps a block could be manufactured during the day, and allowed to cool slowly during the Lunar night, providing heat during the night to some other process such as a dwelling.
While my first instinct is to think of using these things to "Garage" a Starship converted, to a dwelling, I also think that if you could make a metal balloon you might make that inflatable, or import an inflatable balloon from Earth.
But the arch-make method is very clever.
Ending Pending 
Last edited by Void (2025-09-05 19:17:27)
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#2 Yesterday 22:14:30
- tahanson43206
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Re: Tunnel Arch Build Method
This topic popped up when I was looking for topics with "tunnel" in the title.
This topic is so recent I'm surprised it is sitting around without a reply.
It seems to me the roof support method Void is bringing to our attention deserves some replies.
This post is reserved for an index to any posts that may show up, but I don't expect any because there were none until now.
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#3 Today 14:51:20
- SpaceNut
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Re: Tunnel Arch Build Method
Tunnels are dependent for shape based on the equipment being used to make them.
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