Abstract It's shown that SLM technology can produce test samples prototyping building units for construction use on the Moon from specially prepared powder compositions of gabbro-diabase simulating lunar regolith. Fabricated samples with characteristic dimensions of 5 × 6 × 7 mm3 have rather high compressive strength of 17–20 MPa with porosity of 33–39 %.
Highlights New lunar regolith simulant is used based on gabbro-diabase powder compositions. Test samples are produced by 3D printed using SLM procedure. The values of porosities and compressive strength for test samples are presented.
Porosity and compressive strength of test samples produced by SLM using rock gabbro-diabase based powder as a lunar regolith simulant
Acta Astronautica ; 215 ; 493-495
2023-12-14
3 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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