Wind-induced structural response of a large telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5495, Issue , 2004, Pages 258-269

  Smith, David R ^a   Avitabile, Peter ^b   Gwaltney, Geoff ^c   Cho, Myung ^d   Sheehan, Mike ^e  

^a MERLAB   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL   (United States)

^c Michigan Tech Transportation Institute   (United States)

^d AURA   (United States)

^e United States Gemini Office   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamics; Gemini telescope; Modal testing; Structural response; Vibration; Wind loading

Indexed keywords

DOMES; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LABORATORIES; LOADING; MIRRORS; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; WIND;

GEMINI TELESCOPES; MODAL TESTING; STRUCTURAL RESPONSE; WIND LOADING;

TELESCOPES;

EID: 12344250840     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.550465     Document Type: Conference Paper

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2. Cho, M.K., Stepp, L., and Kim, S., "Wind buffeting effects on the Gemini 8m primary mirrors," Proc. SPIE Optomechanical Engineering, 2001.
3. Cho, M.K., Stepp, L.M., and Smith, D.R., "Wind Loading of Large Telescopes," SPIE symposium on Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation, Waikoloa, HI, August 2002.
4. Box, G.E.P., Hunter, J.S., Hunter, W.G., Statistics for Experimenters: An Introduction to Design, Data Analysis, and Model Building, Wiley, 1978.
5. Avitabile, P., et. al., "Modal and Operating Characterization of an Optical Telescope," Proc. 19th Int'l Modal Analysis Conference, 2001.