Conceptual design and structural analysis for an 8.4 m telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5495, Issue , 2004, Pages 526-536

  Manuel, Mendoza ^a   Alejandro, Farah ^a   Elfego, Ruiz ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Conceptual design; FEA; QFD; Structures

Indexed keywords

BINOCULARS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; QUALITY FUNCTION DEPLOYMENT; TUBES (COMPONENTS);

CONCEPTUAL DESIGN; EVALUATION PARAMETERS; LARGE BINOCULAR TELESCOPE (LBT); STRUCTURES;

TELESCOPES;

EID: 12344293670     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.563388     Document Type: Conference Paper

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