Description The long-term vision of establishing a sustainable human presence on the moon will require construction of permanent (or semi-permanent) infrastructures. Leveraging in situ materials in key to minimise challenges related to transportaion of materials, which have important implication in terms of time, energy, costs, and environmental footprint. The use of local resources like lunar regolith (a mixture of soil, dust, crushed rocks and other particles that cover the solid bedrock of planets) has emerged with the potential to serve as building material upon transformation into a concrete-like slurry. Understanding of the slurry's properties is essential for efficient processing and use in forthcoming applications.This project aims to prepare and characterise slurries using regolith simulants and understand the impact of parameters such concentration and composition. Key Objectives

Understand background literature and estblish current state-of-the-art Select regolith simulants to be tested Prepare slurries of different conccentrations and compositions Perform detail structural and rheological characterisation Assess implications for manufacturing in space