## [Development and Mechanical Properties of Structural Materials from Lunar Simulant](http://www.uapress.arizona.edu/onlinebks/ResourcesNearEarthSpace/resources12.pdf) by Desai, Saadatmanesh, and Girdner

From [Resources of Near Earth Space](http://www.uapress.arizona.edu/onlinebks/ResourcesNearEarthSpace/contents.php). This paper is posted as a set of scanned pages. I am setting up a way to OCR it so i can list good quotes here. It deals with 'thermal liquifaction in which the mixture of a lunar simulant and various metallic fibers is liquified at a temperature of about 1100 C so as to form a matrix of overlapping zones of melted simulants and fibers'.

## [Processing of Lunar Basalt Materials](http://www.uapress.arizona.edu/onlinebks/ResourcesNearEarthSpace/resources13.pdf) by B J Pletka

Also from the same book, and also needs to be OCRed before passages can be placed here for reference. The latter part of this paper talks about melting and solidifying basalt to yield a glassy material, and that it is likely that basalt with no hydrated minerals or water content could have significantly better mechanical strength.