ZERODUR 4-m blank surviving up to 20 g acceleration

Thomas Westerhoff; Thomas Werner; Thorsten Gehindy

doi:10.1117/12.2274335

5 September 2017 ZERODUR 4-m blank surviving up to 20 g acceleration

Thomas Westerhoff, Thomas Werner, Thorsten Gehindy

Proceedings Volume 10401, Astronomical Optics: Design, Manufacture, and Test of Space and Ground Systems; 104010K (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2274335
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2017, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

The glass ceramic ZERODUR developed as astronomical telescope mirror substrate material has been widely used in many telescopes due to its excellent small coefficient of thermal expansion. Many large and medium sized mirror substrate blanks have been delivered in the almost 50 years of ZERODUR business so far. Packaging and transportation of mirror substrates of 4 to 8 m in diameter with a weight between 3 and 20 tons requires special attention and sophisticated skills to successful deliver the blanks to their destination at polishing shops all over the world. Typically, a combination of road and sea transport needs to be organized. The requirements on the transport container are depending on the transport route and may vary from destination to destination. In any case the container needs to be able to sufficiently support the multi ton ZERODUR blank to avoid breaking under gravity. Additionally, the configuration needs to be able to absorb shocks happening during transport and loading between truck trailer and ship. For insurance reasons the transport container is always equipped with a GPS trackable shock recorder allowing to download the recorded accelerations on the container and the blank throughout the entire journey. This paper reports on the event of a 4 m class ZERODUR blank exposed to shocks up to 20 g during transport. The event will be discussed in detail together with lessons learned to avoid such events for future transports. Additionally, the 20 g acceleration will be discussed in respect to the data on bending strength for ZERODUR ground surfaces reported in numerous papers by Peter Hartmann et.al. in the last couple of years.

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Thomas Westerhoff, Thomas Werner, and Thorsten Gehindy "ZERODUR 4-m blank surviving up to 20 g acceleration", Proc. SPIE 10401, Astronomical Optics: Design, Manufacture, and Test of Space and Ground Systems, 104010K (5 September 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2274335

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