From: Greenhalgh, RJS (Justin) [J.Greenhalgh@rl.ac.uk]
Sent: 10 November 2005 15:58
To: Cockerill, DJA (David); olivier.teller@cern.ch
Subject: Suggested further FEA work of Riabov

Attachments: EE358.pdf; EE445 FE analysis of Dee with reinforcing beam.pdf
Dave, Olivier,
 
The work that Alexander did for us did not include all the things I had looked for in EE/358 (copy attached). I sketchily wrote up what he had done in EE/445 (copy attached). Although Alexander kindly provided macros so that others could continue what he had started, the required extra effort was never found. The "missing" parts were
 
* case 3, 4, 5 and 6: to check the effects of transport shock loads and braking during transport. Assumes the maximum shock load is 0.35g but that braking can exert 1g horizontally.
 
* check for loss of crystal clearance in all load cases
 
* a write-up from Alexander of the work.
 
We need to assess the need for this work against other tasks that Olivier might have in mind and against the available time. I suspect that Alexander could polish off the work above fairly rapidly given the excellent foundations he laid previously but I am not sure if he can do it with the PC hardware he has in Russia.
 
We do not yet have any sort of model of the OPAL frames.
 
Cheers - Justin.
 
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