Wind loading of large telescopes

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4837, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 352-367

  Cho, Myung K ^a   Stepp, Larry M ^a   Angeli, George Z ^a   Smith, David R ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Correlation length; Large telescopes; Segmented mirrors; Wind loading

Indexed keywords

MIRRORS; TURBULENCE; WIND;

WIND LOADING;

TELESCOPES;

EID: 0037737943     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.458191     Document Type: Conference Paper

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