{"id":39503,"date":"2025-11-01T11:00:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T09:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/?p=39503"},"modified":"2025-11-01T11:00:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T09:00:16","slug":"micromechanical-properties-of-change-5-lunar-soil-minerals-comparison-with-meteorite-and-terrestrial-analogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/?p=39503","title":{"rendered":"Micromechanical properties of Chang&#8217;e-5 lunar soil minerals: Comparison with meteorite and terrestrial analogs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sijia Qiao, Lihui Li, Beixiu Huang, Heng-Ci Tian<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Icarus<br>In Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 1 November 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S0019103525004208\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>LINK<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Highlights<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Minimally destructive tests reveal the lunar soil micromechanical properties.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Chang&#8217;e-5 soil minerals show notable variations in elastic modulus and hardness.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Identical mineral groups from different samples exhibit varying mechanical responses.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Effect of weathering processes on mechanical properties can down to microscale.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"justify-text\">&#8220;The mechanical behavior of lunar materials holds significant engineering implications for lunar base construction and deep space exploration. However, the unique space weathering environment and complex regolith microstructure compromise the credibility of mechanical studies by terrestrial analogs, and the scarcity of returned lunar soil samples precludes repetitive macroscale laboratory testing. In this study, minimally destructive techniques\u2014mineral identification and nanoindentation tests\u2014were integrated to measure the microscale elastic modulus (E<em>) and hardness (H) of Chang&#8217;e-5 lunar soil (5\u2013054CE), lunar meteorite (NWA 4734), and terrestrial analog (CR-1). Results demonstrated notable variations in E<\/em> (87.1\u2013173.2\u202fGPa) and H (6.89\u20139.67\u202fGPa) among 5\u2013054CE minerals, with olivine showing the highest E* and pyroxene showing the highest H. Differential mechanical responses were also observed for identical mineral group from different samples, where 5\u2013054CE exhibited intermediate values versus NWA 4734 and CR-1. These discrepancies probably stem from their weathering processes that lunar meteorite experienced more intense impacts than lunar soil, followed by terrestrial rock. This suggests that the significant influence of weathering processes on mechanical properties extends down to the microscale, inherently altering macroscale mechanical behavior. By characterizing the micromechanical properties of lunar soil, this study provides foundational data for lunar engineering design while advancing our understanding of mechanical property evolution through space weathering processes.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sijia Qiao, Lihui Li, Beixiu Huang, Heng-Ci Tian IcarusIn Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 1 November 2025 LINK &#8220;Highlights &#8220;The mechanical behavior of lunar materials holds significant engineering implications for lunar base construction and deep&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,115,3504],"tags":[5924,1827,1857,1336,673],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39503"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39504,"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39503\/revisions\/39504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}