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20090701 report

CW/CCW inclinometry updated

1 July 2009


This inclinometry run was carried out on 28th June.

    Datasets    El   Dirn      HST       mean leg temperatures    Humidity
                              start      start   middle   end        %
   (20090613    89     cw     22:45       7.7     7.1     6.7       18
    20090613    89    ccw     02:00       6.7     6.5     6.4       30)
    20090628    89     cw     08:30      12.7    13.5    14.3        4     
    20090628    89    ccw     11:45      14.3    15.0    15.7        6


The new data are recorded from the 3 active inclinometers and one of the two strain gauge channels. The LT trace which has had issues previously suffered a problem during the middle of the run. This channel was subseuently excluded from the model determination and the RT channel was used as a substitute during the analysis.


  • The differences between the (CW) model derived from this run and the previous run on 15th June are shown below.

    Click for larger image

  • The resulting rms scatters in the differences in (F1,F2,F3) for the left hand plot are (0.58", 0.52", 0.38") compared to (0.34", 0.28", 0.42") last time.

  • The CW-CCW profile is normal, and is used to generate a hybrid track model which was installed on the 29th June at 14:00.


    Strain Data
    At first glace the strain gauge readings appear to be holding steady, but closer analysis (see strain gauge data) reveals another drop in loadings particularly wheels 1 and 4. This potential trend will be monitored more closely.

    20090702 update

    This morning we ran a adjusted cw inclinometry run with the sole purpose of gathering strain gauge data. Data was collected only for those azimuths where a wheel passes over the fixed strain gauge. The drop in the loadings (relative to wheel 3) becomes more apparent with wheels 4 and 3 looking particularly reduced.

Contact: Holly Thomas. Updated: Thu Jul 2 09:34:20 HST 2009

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