Athermal design of nearly incompressible bonds

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4771, Issue , 2002, Pages 296-303

  Doyle, Keith B ^a   Michels, Gregory J ^b   Genberg, Victor L ^b  

^a Optical Research Associates   (United States)

^b Sigmadyne Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Adhesives; Athermal; Constrained bonds; Finite element analysis; Optical mounting; RTV; Thin bonds

Indexed keywords

ADHESIVES; COMPRESSIVE STRESS; ELASTIC MODULI; ELASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MIRRORS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; OPTICAL TESTING; POISSON RATIO;

ATHERMAL; CASSEGRAIN TELESCOPE; CONSTRAINED BONDS; INCOMPRESSIBLE ADHESIVES; INCOMPRESSIBLE BONDS; OPTICAL MOUNTING; THIN BONDS;

OPTICAL DESIGN;

EID: 0036449833     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.482171     Document Type: Conference Paper

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