Design and Analysis of Homes for Mars Habitats

Astronauts need a strong yet portable home design to live on Mars. This paper proposes using an inflatable with carbon fiber internal truss structure covered by thick silica aerogel tarp house the astronauts. The is inflatable, i.e., bar cylinder that contains central cord, and therefore, it has variable stiffness in tension compression where depends pressure of bar. Thus, we introduced alpha ratios as ratio between tension. To ensure home’s safety, designed program Python analyzes for element forces, reaction displacements direct method. objective minimize deflection structure. Three external forces were considered program: gravity, internal-to-external difference, drag force. Taking α = 0.001, maximal displacement was 0.049 m whereas average 0.0008 m. These results show Mars could easily withstand would experience