| Title: | 3D solar printer improvements and capability comparison with other additive manufacturing technologies |
| Authors: | Martina Dimoska, Author |
| Material Type: | ISU Individual Project |
| Publisher: | Illkirch-Graffenstaden (France) : International Space University, 2022 |
| Format: | 1 electronic resource (55 p.) / col. ill. |
| Bibliography note: | Includes bibliographical references |
| Languages: | English |
| Description: | With the novel peak of space exploration, the incentive is to focus on research that will benefit humanity and interstellar travel. That will help to spread human consciousness further while exploring and populating other celestial bodies. In this report, the feasibility of 3D Solar Printing is examined. The exact working principles known for standard 3D printing will be applied, but with a different power source, the Sun, and the sand will be its initial material. This research aims to upgrade and optimize the preexisting 3D Solar Printer. The primary objective is to improve the 3D printing platform while proposing better and more viable concept solutions for future upgrades. The more ambitious goals for further research are to produce 3D printed samples that can be simple at first trials but then develop into complex shapes. Utilization of various lunar soil simulants while using 3D Solar Printing prospects. The final envisioned goal is 3D printed bricks firstly of sand, followed by lunar regolith simulants LHS-1, LMS-1, and EAC-1. While continuously perfecting the 3D Solar Printer and upgrading it, its performance should be compared with other additive manufacturing technologies such as Selective Laser Sintering. The best parametric combination of material and printer characteristics, such as power, speed, and layer thicknesses, hypotheses how the potential use of 3D Solar Printing might be beneficial to settling on extraterrestrial surfaces. |
| ISU program : | Master of Space Studies |
| Format : | Online |
| Permalink: | https://isulibrary.isunet.edu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=11550 |
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