A. Sukumaran, C. Zhang, A. Nisar, A. Agarwal | 2024 | Advances in Space Research
DOI 10.1016/j.asr.2023.10.039Review state
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This review critically examines the tribological performance of aerospace materials in lunar regolith environments, highlighting challenges posed by abrasive and erosive wear mechanisms. It identifies gaps in understanding temperature effects on wear behavior and emphasizes the need for dust mitigation strategies and advanced testing methods for space materials. This paper reviews the tribological behavior of materials in lunar environments, focusing on wear mechanisms under abrasive and erosive conditions. It discusses three-body and two-body abrasion, the necessity of wear indices for future research, and the importance of testing equipment. The study highlights the challenges posed by lunar regolith and the need for advanced materials and protective strategies for space missions. The provided text appears to be a series of file paths and identifiers, likely related to digital assets or media files. These identifiers include numbers like 'gr1', 'gr2', 'gr14', 'gr15', etc., followed by file extensions such as '.sml' and '.gif', suggesting they are thumbnails or small images. The URLs point to a cloud storage or content delivery network (CDN) location, indicating these files are ho
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Abrasive and erosive wear mechanisms elucidation
Mechanism analysis | Tribological performance assessment of aerospace materials in lunar regolith environments
Lunar Dust Interaction Experiment
Material Testing
Space Material Abrasion Test
Material Testing
Space Environment Simulation
Environmental Testing
erosive wear of Al alloys with varying particle size and impact velocity
tribological testing
impact angle in mass change and transmission loss of silica glass specimens
tribological testing
impact angle in mass change and transmission loss of polycarbonate glass specimens
tribological testing
Impact experiments on Al alloys
Erosion testing | Tribological performance evaluation
Lunar Dust Simulant
Replicates the physical and chemical properties of lunar regolith for testing material interactions.
Space Material Abrasion Test
Used to simulate the effects of abrasive or erosive environments on materials in space.
Space Environment Simulation
Replicates the harsh conditions of space, including radiation, vacuum, and temperature extremes.
Particle velocity
up to 400 m/s
Mass flow rate
2 g/min
Maximum lunar temperature
150 C
Minimum lunar temperature
250 C
Mechanical creep temperature
0.4 of melting temperature