ANL, Argonne, Illinois, USA
The Advanced Photon Source-Upgrade (APS-U) project has stringent specifications and a 12 month installation schedule. Some form of these constraints appear to be common at all multi-bend achromat upgrade projects. At the APS-U, no full tests will be made of the final accelerator support design. The evaluation of the final design against the specifications will be based primarily on computer simulations using virtual inputs. Insuring that the final designs meet specifications solely based on simulations is much like cooking a complex, multi-course meal without a trial run. Producing a successful meal on the first try requires a prior understanding of the ingre-dients, techniques, and interactions between the constituents. A good cookbook can be essential in providing this under-standing. Likewise, producing an accelerator support final design that meets the requirements requires a prior under-standing of the materials, components, techniques, and interactions between them. This poster describes a cookbook-style approach that any design team can use to confidently predict important characteristics such as natural frequency and ambient vibration response with an error of around 10%.
