RE: Re[2]: [ATM] RE: Silicone Failure

["Arjan te Marvelde" <arjan.te.marvelde@hetnet.nl>]

Jerry,

If you put a pound of glass on the table it pushes down with a pound of
force.
If you glue this same pound of glass with silicone to the same table it
still pushes with a pound of force.
The flexibility of the silicone does not affect a thing in the assumptions
about the force couple, made in the analysis of cell induced mirror
deformation.

Arjan

> Silicone mounting of mirrors has been highly successful by a number of
> people.  I personally believe all the "bad press" is that some people have
> made improper assumptions about its properties, applications, and use in
> analyses.  Those assumptions include things like considering it a rigid,
> none flexible material (as if it 'welds' the mirror to its cell attach
> point) which cause mirror distortions.

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