Astron extreme light weighting

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5495, Issue , 2004, Pages 372-382

  Tromp, Niels ^a   Drost, Marco ^a   Pragt, Johan ^a  

^a ASTRON   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

5 axis; Aluminium; Construction; Light; Light weight; Machining; Milling; Mirror; Monolithic; Stiff; Structure

Indexed keywords

COMMINUTION; CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT; MACHINING; OPTIMIZATION; PROBES; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; WEIGHING;

5-AXIS; ASTRON; LIGHT WEIGHT; MONOLITHIC;

AEROSPACE INDUSTRY;

EID: 12344303327     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.551940     Document Type: Conference Paper

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