Re: Fused quartz pendulum - temperature coef
neil
Matthys in his book "accurate Clock Pendulums" provides the
following:
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Pendulum Materials: F Quartz 0.55 x 10-6 Regular Invar 1.5 x 10-6 Super Invar 0.63 x 10-6 Carbon Fibre <0.5 x 10-6 but the glue is 5.0 x 10-6 Steel 10.5 x 10-6 Walnut 6.6 x 10-6 + bad moisture effects Beech 2.6 x 10-6 + bad moisture effects Suspension Materials Stainless steel 10.8 bad strength properties NiSpan 7.6 - 8.1 good Berylium copper 17.5 good Phosphor Bronze 17.8 good Al Si bronze 18 best Si Bronze 18 some thermal hysteresis Ni Sn Bronze 18.5 bad termal hysteresis Neil On 5/04/2020 12:19 am, John Haine
wrote:
I'm glad it's useful Neil. As a matter of interest, what is the tempco of fused silica, how does it compare with carbon fibre?
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