Minutes of the Tracker
Technical Meeting
November 6, 2003
Agenda:
1. Action items from last week
2. Monday delta-PRR preparations
3. Sidewall, coupon tests, static sidewall, fixtures, and other
vibe-test prep status
4. Torque striping
5. T/V prep status; TRR date; dummy TEM issues
6. A.O.B.
New Action Items:
Old Actions:
Sandro reported on the
vibration test plans. See the minutes
below from a meeting held yesterday at Alenia.
Some details of the sine test still are at issue. Sandro estimates that we need 1.5 days per
axis, which increases the test time. Tom
will take vibration info just received and talk to NASA about it. Tom said that he added a note to the
procedure regarding Chris Fransen’s email to use limiting during the vibration if
necessary to avoid over testing. The
program will pause after the –6dB point to evaluate the results and make sure
that the further testing will not induce loads higher than expected.
There was some discussion of
the T/V test planning. See the minutes
below from the meeting at Alenia. Tom
said that long cycle and plateau times in the original plan are not necessary
for the engineering model. Jack and
Jeff has prepared a few slides (attached) on their test proposal. The following two paragraphs relate to those
slides:
1. The exact profile of
the test cycles. The tracker power
levels will not vary much, 8.7 - 10.0 W; values are taken from LAT-TD-0225,
"Summary of LAT Dissipated Powers".
Concerning the cold plate temperature, given that the tracker runs about
9 - 10C above the GRID temperature (for the HOT case), and predictions (from
the CDR) give a tracker temperature of 29C, then for these math model
correlation tests, the cold plate must operate to at least 20C; 25C would be
better. At the cold limit, the plate
must operate down to about 10C (this number may be smaller than the hot case)
below the cold operating limit; i.e., -15C.
For thermal cycling, to achieve qualification levels if that is what you
are planning to do, the cold plate must achieve -30 to +50C.
2. Definition of
thermal balance. There is of course no
exact definition, but for this test
article, wherein thermal masses can vary widely, after Jeff makes several
transient runs with his thermal model of just the tracker, he will be able to
identify those masses which time-lag the most (he probably already has good
idea). The rate of change of those identified
temperatures should be no more than 0.1 to 0.2C per hour for about 4 hours, but
additionally, the second rate of change (d2T/dt2) should be decreasing during
that time period.
Sandro expressed concern
that there is not enough time for the test to assure completion before the
holiday shutdown at Alenia on Dec 19. He
prefers to prepare for the test in December and to start the T/V cycles on Jan
7. Sandro asked about requirements for
space between the tower and the thermal blanket. About 1cm was deemed to be okay.
Tom said that the TEM cables
will be in contact with cold plate, so heat will shunt into the plate
there. We will only need to monitor the
temperature of TEM. Sandro said that
the TEM will have a blanket. Nanda
commented that for real TEM it will be best to keep it at constant temperature
throughout the program, to avoid risking delays caused by TEM malfunction.
Luca reported a negative
response on obtaining the old VME processor boards in Italy. Anyway, Gunther managed to get the
boards. Pisa will buy crates and power
supplies. He needs a reply from Gunther
in order to send out an order. Pisa needs
to spend the money by the end of the month.
They will also buy the computers.
What else can they buy? There
was a question about how many spare VME processors will be available.
Sandro said that he will send
the missing documents (1601 and 1918) and updated document 1584 tomorrow. Mid tray drawings are being finalized by BJ. The assembly drawing was sent out yesterday. (See http://www-glast.slac.stanford.edu/Tracker-Hardware/readiness/Tray_Panel/Tray_Panel_PRR.html
for the latest review material.) There
remains some TBD regarding the black paint.
Sandro said that he intends to use the nonconductive variety. BJ said that he took care of Jerry's
comments. There is still an issue of
primer and thinner for the black paint.
Luisella is contacting the manufacturer for application information. It was agreed that we should not proceed
without the correct primer and thinner.
We need to find the delivery time for primer and thinner. Tom estimates two weeks. Plyform won't start production without
having all materials in hand. Thick
tungsten is still being cut and will arrive at the end of this month. Also, the bias circuits won’t be available
until end of month; they should be available to ship on Nov 24.
Pisa has inspected all the
light honeycomb, for a total of 276 pieces.
Sandro has sent the statistics. Pisa
will now inspect the heavy material. They
expect less problems with it. Sandro needs
to know if they can straighten cells manually (the answer so far is NO). Some cores have some cell walls bent over,
probably during shipping and handling. Plyform
will start production with perfect cores.
Sandro is waiting for disposition of the others.
Coupons have their inserts
installed today at COI, so they will soon begin pulling. COI is completing the static sidewalls. The static-sidewall insert installation
tooling arrived. More M4 inserts were
sent yesterday from the newly arrived flight lot. COI will ship the static sidewalls Saturday morning to Hytec, to
arrive Monday for final prep and the static test. Sandro has not received the vibration fixtures. Jeff needs to send the airbill numbers. More than a week has passed since they were
shipped.
Bari would like the
predictions data send to them in Excel format, to use for over-plotting the
test data. Erik said that he could send
that information.
Plyform is machining
sidewalls. Beginning of next week they
will install inserts. Tom noted that only one set of mini sidewalls is needed
from Plyform. The will cut the coupons
next week and put in inserts the end of next week. Sandro will request that they complete the testing without
inserts by the end of next week. Testing
of Plyform coupons with inserts will be done at COI. COI-made coupons will be pulled Monday. All data should be available by Wednesday evening. It was clear that the Plyform coupons with
inserts will not be pulled, according to this plan, until after the vibration
test. There was some discussion of the
risk involved in this. The decision was
to move forward with the test based on the pull tests of non-insert coupons
plus the insert coupon and mini-sidewall tests done with COI parts.
Tom reminded us that a torque
stripe needs to be on each screw on the sidewall. Standard "torque striping paint" should be used. Sandro will send the name of what they have
available.
Getting back to the T/V
test, Sandro confirmed that it cannot span the Christmas break. He estimated that the time to turn the tower
around after the vibration test is at minimum one week. He would like more time to test the instruments
at Pisa before going to Alenia. Sandro
will propose a schedule for the T/V test.
He doesn't like to leave the tower in Alenia over the break.
Appendices:
Nov, 5th 2003 Alenia meeting
minutes
**** EM Vib test.
The Alenia people request a
different time schedule in order to test 1
axis in 1.5 day: this is due
to their expierence in this kind of activity,
taking also into account the
data analysis and discussion and eventually
further actions. They also
confirm the 2 hours/strain channel: this time
is requested to glue the
strain, to plug, to check and to calibrate it to
the DAQ. So, the effective
schedule should be the following:
1st day (Mon Nov, 17th):
Incoming tower + instrumentation
2nd day (Tue Nov, 18th):
Instrumentation set-up continued
3rd day (Wed Nov, 19th): Z
axis
4th day (Thu Nov, 20th): Z
axis completion and shaker rotation
5th day (Fri Nov, 21st): X
axis
6th day (Mon Nov, 24th): X
axis completion and Y axis
7th day (Tue Nov, 25th): Y
axis
8th day (Wed Nov, 26th):
Test completion and dismounting
For the sinusoidal vibration
test at low frequency it can be performed as
follows:
Lateral (X&Y) 5 - 7.39 Hz at 20 mm 0-peak
7.39 - 15 Hz
at 4.4 g full level
Thrust (Z) 5
- 5.57 Hz at 20 mm 0-peak
5.57 - 18 Hz
at 2.5 g full level
Of course the 1/4 level test
can be performed without any change.
The additional Alenia
request for this tets in order to change the sweep
rate in the 25-35 Hz range
is that the test must be divided into three
sub-tests: the first one in
the 5-25 Hz at 2 oct/min, the second one in
the 25-35 Hz at 0.75
oct/min, finally the last one up to 50 Hz at 2
oct/min.
For the sine burst test: the
Alenia people are evaluating the possibility
to perform the test as you
asked. On the contrary, a sort of sine sweep
will be perfomed: in this
case they are evaluating the sweep rate in order
to perform a given number of
cycles.
Alenia will send us the list
of strain gages available in the
laboratory, then we'll send
you this list expecting that you give us
a priority list of the
strain type, number and location of the strain
gages to be used. Then on
the basis of the time allocated for the
instrumentation, Alenia
people will try to set-up as much strain gages as
possible to fit the
schedule.
Minutes from the meeting at
Alenia, from Nicola Mazziotta:
** EM T/V test
MLI blanket: Alenia can
provide it but they need the exact dimensions. The
time needed to have it is 1-
2 weeks.
A tentative schedule
proposed by Alenia for the test is:
- 3-4 days for the test
set-up
- 9 days of test if the 156
hr total time is confirmed
- 2 days for the completion
and dismounting procedure
Some additional days are
also needed to release the data in electronic
format.
The Alenia DAQ cannot read
the thermistors on the cables, so we can
eventually try to read them
with a voltmeter.
We are writing the plan and
procedures and the interface plate and the
thermal blanket support are
being designed.
The requests are the
following:
- which is the exact profile
of the cycles?
- thermal balance definition
- minimum distance between
the tower and the thermal blanket
- is it possible to
interrupt the cycles maintaining the item under vacuum
at room temperature?
Alenia last work day before
Christmans is December 19th. On the basis of
their requests the test
should begin no later than the end of November.
This is in conflit with
other activities:
0) prepare the blanket
(drawings, order, procurement)
1) shipping of the tower in
Pisa after Viv test (Nov, 27th)
2) dismount the tower
3) check each trays for
eventual damages
4) black paint the sidewalls
5) mount the tower again
with the new cables and thermocouples
6) ship the tower back to
Alenia
The December work period is
short due to the Christmas holiday. We can
perform the T/V test
starting from January 7th.