Production with impure materials

Human settlement on Mars will need to trust technical systems to function. Our project’s approach is to build the process chain from materials to manufacturing to handling and investigate the range of…
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Human settlement on Mars will need to trust technical systems to function.
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Achieving sustainability and full circularity requires the use of Martian materials (regolith), the production of renewable energy and sustainable manufacturing processes.
© Patrick Pollmeier

Human settlement on Mars will need to trust technical systems to function. The distance from Mars to Earth hinders supply-chains to support human settlement with spare parts in a reasonable amount of time. Hence we need to be able to produce a huge variety of spare parts on Mars. Achieving sustainability and full circularity requires the use of Martian materials (regolith), the production of renewable energy and sustainable manufacturing processes. The approach is to build the process chain from materials to manufacturing to handling and investigate the range of potential applications.

Project Leader

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Kirsten Tracht
Professor for Assembly Technology
University of Bremen

Badgasteiner Str. 1, 28359 Bremen, DE
FZB-Building, Room 0080
+49 421 218 64840
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28.04.2023

Dry-Adhesive Microstructures for Material Handling of Additively Manufactured and Deep-Rolled Metal Surfaces with Reference to Mars

Nicole Mensching, Mirja Louisa Krüger, Askar Kvaratskheliya, Daniel Meyer, Kirsten Tracht, Ilya Okulov, Lutz Mädler

Materials 16 (2023): 4170

doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/ma16114170, preprint available open access: doi:https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202304.1169/v1

Once on Mars, maintenance…

01.07.2022

A vision for Human Mars Exploration made in Bremen

M. Avila, C. Heinicke, L. Colombi Ciacchi, A. Dekorsy, S. Fehrler, K. Rezwan, N. Sieroka, K. Tracht, C. Verseux

44th COSPAR Scientific Assembly. Held 16-24 July, 2022. Online at https://www.cosparathens2022.org/. Abstract PEX.2-0002-22.

Bibcode: 2022cosp...44.3186A

Leading space agencies have the…

29.04.2022

A discrete differential geometric formulation of multiphase surface interfaces for scalable multiphysics equilibrium simulations

Stefan Christian Endres, Marc Avila, Lutz Mädler

Chemical Engineeering Science 257 (2022), 117681

doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ces.2022.117681

Many systems in fluid dynamics and materials science are modelled using multiphase energy balances which can be reduced to an interface,…

Production with impure materials