Author: Alves, F.
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TUCA03 Estimation of the Temperature Fluctuations Harshness Regarding Stability of Structures in the Nanometer Range 133
 
  • N. Jobert, F. Alves, S.K. Kubsky
    SOLEIL, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
 
  Thermally induced distortions are a key contributor to the overall positional and pointing performance of high-stability systems. Though stability scales with temperature fluctuations, there is some hidden complexity is the subject. Firstly, not all temperature oscillations will distort the structure: fast variations will hardly propagate into the structure, little change in overall dimensions but primarily pointing errors. Conversely, slow variations will result in quasi uniform temperature fields that change dimensions, hence mainly positional errors. Secondly, there is randomness in temperature fluctuations which obscures the actual severity of a given environment: randomness occurs timewise, but also space-wise. For highly stable situations, random part of the temperature field becomes prominent, and discarding this component becomes questionable. No harshness indicator exists that could help quantifying the actual severity of a given thermal environment. It is the objective of this paper to provide some insight on the matter, and propose a simple yet efficient numerical method allowing the evaluation of actual structural response to any realistic thermal environment.  
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DOI • reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-MEDSI2016-TUCA03  
About • paper received ※ 01 September 2016       paper accepted ※ 20 September 2016       issue date ※ 22 June 2017  
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