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Structural members produced from unrefined lunar regolith, a structural assessment
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Structural members produced from unrefined lunar regolith, a structural assessment
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Indyk
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Stephen
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1986-
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Stephen Indyk
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Haym Benaroya
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chair
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Haim
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Haim Baruh
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internal member
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Bottega
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William
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William Bottega
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Rutgers University
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Graduate School - New Brunswick
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2015
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2015-10
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2015
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The potential of utilizing lunar regolith as the raw material for manufacturing structural members is very appealing for future exploration of the Moon. Future lunar missions will depend on in-situ resource utilization (ISRU) for structural components. Manufacturing structural components directly from unrefined lunar regolith would have the advantage of needing less specialized material processing equipment in comparison with refining the lunar regolith for its raw elements. Sintering lunar regolith has been proposed as a structural material by previous researchers but has not been evaluated for its elastic material properties. Sintering can be a highly variable process and only with the knowledge of the material constants can a structure be designed using this material. Quantification of the material properties was performed for sintered lunar regolith by testing sintered lunar regolith simulant. Two batches of sintered lunar regolith simulant JSC-1A samples with porosities 1.44% and 11.78% underwent compression testing using an Instron series 4500 Universal Test System machine. Material properties were evaluated from the load vs. deflection data acquired. Stress, strain, modulus of elasticity, toughness, the compression strength, bulk modulus, Poisson’s ratio and compressive strength were evaluated as a function of porosity and data were aggregated as probability density functions. The average compressive strengths of the low porosity material were 202 MPa, and 84 MPa for the high porosity material. By comparing these values with other ISRU derived structural materials, sintered lunar regolith is expected to be one of the strongest material derived from lunar sources.
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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
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Rutgers University Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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1 online resource (xiv, 200 p. : ill.)
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M.S.
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Lunar soil
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by Stephen Indyk
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Graduate School - New Brunswick Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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ETD graduate
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The author owns the copyright to this work.
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Indyk
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Stephen
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2015-09-10 01:32:06
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Stephen Indyk
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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2015-10-31
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2016-05-01
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Access to this PDF has been restricted at the author's request. It will be publicly available after May 1st, 2016.
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