[ATM] Metal mirrors - good online reference

["lou krajci" <loukrajci@comcast.net>]

For those that want to compare mechanical/thermal properties of various
mirror materials, see:
http://astron.berkeley.edu/~jrg/MATERIALS/ych3.html

Too bad stainless steel is not listed among the candidates...but you can use
their methodology of analysis and plot steel's behavior with regard to
stiffness and thermal behavior and see how well it compares with aluminum,
various glasses/ceramics/etc.

I suppose you could do the same with carbon fiber and epoxy and see how
those materials compare....

Tom Krajci
Albuquerque, New Mexico
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