Wind vibration analyses of giant magellan telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6271, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Kan, Frank W ^a   Eggers, Daniel W ^a  

^a SIMPSON GUMPERTZ AND HEGER INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic response; Finite element analysis; Optical performance; Wind vibration

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC RESPONSE; ERROR ANALYSIS; MIRRORS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; VIBRATION MEASUREMENT; WIND EFFECTS;

GEMINI SOUTH TELESCOPE; GIANT MAGELLAN TELESCOPE (GMT); OPTICAL PERFORMANCE; WIND VIBRATION;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 33748991576     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.672685     Document Type: Conference Paper

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