Degradation and destruction of optical surfaces by hypervelocity impact

International Journal of Impact Engineering

Volumn 26, Issue 1-10, 2001, Pages 683-698

  Schäfer, Frank K ^a   Geyer, Tobias ^a   Schneider, Eberhard E ^a   Rott, Martin ^b   Igenbergs, Eduard ^b  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR HIGH SPEED DYNAMICS   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coated quartz glass; Damage law; Debris fluxes; Gr n model; Hypervelocity impact; Light gas gun; Meteoroid fluxes; Mirror; ORDEM96; Plasmadynamic accelerator; Surface degradation; Total destruction

Indexed keywords

EID: 26444568151     PISSN: 0734743X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0734-743x(01)00114-2     Document Type: Article

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