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Research Article | Open Access

3D-printed Lunar regolith simulant-based geopolymer composites with bio-inspired sandwich architectures

Siqi Maa,b, Yuqi Jianga,b, Shuai Fuc, Peigang Hea,b( ), Chengyue Sund, Xiaoming Duana,b, Dechang Jiaa,b, Paolo Colomboe,f, Yu Zhoua,b
Institute for Advanced Ceramics, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China
Key Laboratory of Advanced Structural–Functional Integration Materials & Green Manufacturing Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China
Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz 5512, Germany
Laboratory for Space Environment and Physical Sciences, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China
Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Padova, Padova 35122, Italy
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, Philadelphia 16802, USA
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Abstract

Over time, natural materials have evolved to be lightweight, high-strength, tough, and damage-tolerant due to their unique biological structures. Therefore, combining biological inspiration and structural design would provide traditional materials with a broader range of performance and applications. Here, the application of an ink-based three-dimensional (3D) printing strategy to the structural design of a Lunar regolith simulant-based geopolymer (HIT-LRS-1 GP) was first reported, and high-precision carbon fiber/quartz sand-reinforced biomimetic patterns inspired by the cellular sandwich structure of plant stems were fabricated. This study demonstrated how different cellular sandwich structures can balance the structure–property relationship and how to achieve unprecedented damage tolerance for a geopolymer composite. The results presented that components based on these biomimetic architectures exhibited stable non-catastrophic fracture characteristics regardless of the compression direction, and each structure possessed effective damage tolerance and anisotropy of mechanical properties. The results showed that the compressive strengths of honeycomb sandwich patterns, triangular sandwich patterns, wave sandwich patterns, and rectangular sandwich patterns in the Y-axis (Z-axis) direction were 15.6, 17.9, 11.3, and 20.1 MPa (46.7, 26.5, 23.8, and 34.4 MPa), respectively, and the maximum fracture strain corresponding to the above four structures could reach 10.2%, 6.7%, 5.8%, and 5.9% (12.1%, 13.7%, 13.6%, and 13.9%), respectively.

Keywords

damage tolerancethree-dimensional (3D) printingLunar regolith simulant (LRS)geopolymer (GP)in situ resource utilization (ISRU)bio-inspired patterns

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Journal of Advanced Ceramics
Volume 12 Issue 3,
March 2023
Pages 510-525
DOI: 10.26599/JAC.2023.9220700
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Ma S, Jiang Y, Fu S, et al. 3D-printed Lunar regolith simulant-based geopolymer composites with bio-inspired sandwich architectures. Journal of Advanced Ceramics, 2023, 12(3): 510-525. https://doi.org/10.26599/JAC.2023.9220700

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Received: 31 August 2022
Accepted: 27 November 2022
Published: 16 February 2023
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