PCI - Practice Cylinder

Practice Cylinder
General view.
Date: 9/12/02
Status: Test manufacturing.
Contact: Jason Tarrant
Practice Cylinder
Close-up of surface.
Date: 9/12/02
Status: Test manufacturing.
Contact: Jason Tarrant
Practice Cylinder
Close-up of aperture.
Date: 9/12/02
Status: Test manufacturing.
Contact: Jason Tarrant
Practice Cylinder
Close-up showng excess resin.
Date: 9/12/02
Status: Test manufacturing.
Contact: Jason Tarrant
Practice Cylinder
Close-up showing imperfections.
Date: 9/12/02
Status: Test manufacturing.
Contact: Jason Tarrant
Practice Cylinder
Close-up showing imperfections.
Date: 9/12/02
Status: Test manufacturing.
Contact: Jason Tarrant

PCI - Short Test Cylinder

Short Test Cylinder
General view.
Date: 7/2/03
Status: Prototype.
Contact: Jason Tarrant
Short Test Cylinder
General view.
Date: 7/2/03
Status: Prototype.
Contact: Jason Tarrant
Short Test Cylinder
Being measured on the RAL CMM.
Date: 24/3/03
Status: Prototype.
Contact: Jason Tarrant

PCI - Production

Cylinder and Wings
At PCI
Date: 1/5/03
Status: Manufacturing.
Contact: Jason Tarrant 		Word doc with multiple photos
ITE Cylinder
At PCI.
Date: 3/7/03
Status: Manufacturing.
Contact: Jason Tarrant
ITE Cylinder
At PCI - note Cylinder is slightly deformed under its own weight.
Date: 3/7/03
Status: Manufacturing.
Contact: Jason Tarrant
Support Structure
Complete view - last time Structure will be together before installation in ATLAS.
Date: 31/10/03
Status: Production
Contact: Jason Tarrant
Front Support
Front Support and In-Fill Panels.
Date: 31/10/03
Status: Production
Contact: Jason Tarrant
Rear Support
Rear Support and ITE.
Date: 31/10/00
Status: Production
Contact: Jason Tarrant
Testing the Front Support
Front Support load test, servo-hydraulic load underneath and LVDTs measuring deflection.
Date: 31/10/03
Status: Testing
Contact: Jason Tarrant
Load-check
Lead (plomb) wool blankets & paper static mass in proof load of full structure, LVDTs underneath & laser tracker references on top measuring deflection.(Rotated by 90 degrees.)
Date: 31/10/03
Status: Testing
Contact: Jason Tarrant
Load-check
1.5 x prrof load, view inside full structure.
Date: 31/10/03
Status: Testing
Contact: Jason Tarrant
The Team
Jason, Chris and Monika (2nd, 3rd and 4th from left)
Date: 31/10/03
Status: Testing
Contact: Jason Tarrant
Acceptance testing at Liverpool
The "Gauge Cylinder" Tooling to test inner radius - note rotating blade top-right.
Date: 20/1/04
Status: Acceptance
Contact: Jason Tarrant
Acceptance testing at Liverpool
Testing the outer radius using a tool in contact with rotating blade.
Date: 20/1/04
Status: Acceptance
Contact: Jason Tarrant
Acceptance testing at RAL
Surveying the Fixation Holes in the Supoort Cylinder.
Date: 24/1/04
Status: Acceptance
Contact: Jason Tarrant
Acceptance testing at RAL
Preparing to measure the Front Wing on CMM. (Who is mystery person holding it?)
Date: 24/1/04
Status: Acceptance
Contact: Jason Tarrant
Acceptance testing at RAL
Testing Disc 8 in Support Cylinder with undersized Pins (to test effect of enlarging 15 mm Disc Holes).
Date: 5/2/04
Status: Acceptance
Contact: Jason Tarrant
Acceptance testing at RAL
Looking through Cylinder - left-to-right: Chris, Stephen and Jason.
Date: 5/2/04
Status: Acceptance
Contact: Jason Tarrant
Acceptance testing at RAL
Close up of Disc, looking through Cylinder.
Date: 5/2/04
Status: Acceptance
Contact: Jason Tarrant
Acceptance testing at RAL
Pin going through Cylinder to support Disc.
Date: 5/2/04
Status: Acceptance
Contact: Jason Tarrant
Acceptance testing at RAL
Pin going through Cylinder to support Disc - note gold ring to mark location of Hole before it is enlarged to 19 mm.
Date: 5/2/04
Status: Acceptance
Contact: Jason Tarrant
Cylinder Support Frame
Ooops ! The trolley isn't big enough.
Date: 19/3/04
Status: Preparation for Insert placement
Contact: Chris Nelson
Cylinder Support Frame
Stewart squashes a RAL physicist.
Date: 19/3/04
Status: Preparation for Insert placement
Contact: Chris Nelson
Insert Hole modification by PCI
The two Cylinders at PCI.
Date: 19/3/04
Status: Preparation for Insert placement
Contact: Chris Nelson
Insert Hole modification by PCI
Jig for enlarging holes.
Date: 19/3/04
Status: Preparation for Insert placement
Contact: Chris Nelson
Insert Hole modification by PCI
Holes being enlarged.
Date: 19/3/04
Status: Preparation for Insert placement
Contact: Chris Nelson
Insert placement for Cylinder#1
Pellet placement
Placement of precision "Pellets" required to locate the precision bar for the Insert placement. Chris is locating Pellets at front end of Cylinder#2 using x-y stage.
Date: 22/7/04
Status: Preparation for Insert placement
Contact: Chris Nelson
Insert placement
Prior to Insert placement on Cylinder#2, we checked holes with precision bar. This shows that this hole (Disc 4, 35 degrees) was nearly 2 mm out - at the edge of the tolerance.
Date: 25/7/04
Status: Preparation for Insert placement
Contact: Chris Nelson

Prototype Wing

Protype Wing
In RAL inspection on CMM.
Date: 01/11/00
Status: Test manufacturing.
Contact: Chris Nelson
Protype Wing
Frequency testing at Oxford.
Date: 01/12/00
Status: Test manufacturing.
Contact: Chris Nelson
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Last updated:                    25 Feb 05
Stephen Haywood                  S.Haywood@rl.ac.uk