J.-C. Ginés-Palomares, J. Baasch, S. Stapperfend, L. Facchini, S. Linke, E. Stoll, J. Günster | 2025 | Additive Manufacturing Frontiers
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This paper investigates the thermal processing of a lunar regolith simulant composed of 20 wt % basalt and 80 wt % anorthosite from the Schr dinger Basin. The simulant was tested using laser sintering and melting techniques. Sintering begins at ~1180 C and full melt occurs above 1360 C. Melting was 10 times more energy efficient than sintering for material consolidation. Simulant produced dense samples up to 11 mm thick via sintering and 50 mm thick via melting. The provided text appears to be a mix of metadata and image references related to a scientific paper or document. It includes information about the paper's title, authors, journal, and publication date, as well as links to various image files associated with the paper. The text also contains some technical terms related to materials science or engineering, such as 'laser sintering' and 'additive manufacturing.' However, there is no clear main content or narrative in the text itself. The provided text is a collection of image and figure descriptions from a scientific paper, likely related to the processing of a lunar regolith simulant using laser-based additive manufacturing techniques. The paper discusses sintering experime
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Laser sintering
thermal
Laser melting
thermal
Sintering experiments
Material processing
Laser melting progress
Additive manufacturing
Layer interface analysis
Microstructural analysis
Heat processing setup
Thermal analysis
Laser melting of lunar regolith simulant EAC-1A
large-area heat processing
Large-area sintering of lunar regolith
heat processing
Sintering behavior
Formation of solid structures under heat and laser irradiation
Layer interface morphology
SEM backscatter images of the interface between layers
Thermal behavior
Heat processing setup and elements
sintering temperature
1180 C
Full melt temperature
1360 C
Maximum melted thickness
50 mm
Simulant composition
20 wt% basalt, 80 wt% anorthosite
element size
appropriate for construction materials