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Wiemerslage, G. E.

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TUPMN101 A Study of the Minimum Wall Thickness for an Extruded Aluminum Vacuum Chamber 1151
 
  • E. Trakhtenberg, G. E. Wiemerslage
    ANL, Argonne, Illinois
 
  Funding: Work at Argonne National Laboratory is supported by the U. S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences under contract # DE-Ac02-06CH11357.

Multiple vacuum chambers for the insertion devices with 1-mm wall thickness were developed at Argonne for the APS and many other synchrotron radiation facilities.* Using the extrusion for the insertion device vacuum chamber (ID VC) for the DESY FEL project with a 9.5-mm inner diameter, we decreased the wall thickness to 0.6, 0.5, and 0.4 mm to test the vacuum integrity for a thin wall in these extrusions. A special ultrasonic transducer with a 1/8" diameter was required to do the job. Also some additional short samples, machined exactly as the experimental piece, were used to verify wall thickness mechanically. Experimental setup and test results are presented.

* Trakhtenberg E., Wiemerslage G., Den Hartog P. "New insertion device vacuum chambers at the Advanced Photon Source", PAC 2003 Particle Accelerator Physics Conference; Portland, OR.