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SUBMITTER: Chow BJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5430746 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chow Brian J BJ Chen Tzehan T Zhong Ying Y Qiao Yu Y
Scientific reports 20170427 1
Martian habitats are ideally constructed using only locally available soils; extant attempts to process structural materials on Mars, however, generally require additives or calcination. In this work we demonstrate that Martian soil simulant Mars-1a can be directly compressed at ambient into a strong solid without additives, highlighting a possible aspect of complete Martian in-situ resource utilization. Flexural strength of the compact is not only determined by the compaction pressure but also ...[more]