LIGO

[2006-?]

MBDyn is used to model the seismic support (HAM-SAS) of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO). Point of contact for MBDyn modeling is Prof. Pierangelo Masarati. Point of contact for HAM-SAS design are Prof. Virginio Sannibale and Dr. Valerio Boschi (Università di Pisa; Caltech).

Publications

• “Seismic Attenuation System Synthesis by Reduced Order Models from Multibody Analysis” V. Boschi, R. De Salvo, P. Masarati, G. Quaranta, V. Sannibale ECCOMAS Multibody Dynamics 2007, Milano, Italy, June 25-28 2007.
• “Multibody modeling of a LIGO in vacuum Seismic Attenuation System (SAS)” V. Boschi, R. De Salvo, V. Sannibale, P. Masarati, and G. Quaranta Workshop at Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, December 6, 2007.
• “The Seismic Attenuation System (SAS) for the Advanced LIGO gravitational wave interferometric detectors” Alberto Stochino, Benjamin Abbot, Yoichi Aso, Mark Barton, Alessandro Bertolini, Valerio Boschi, Dennis Coyne, Riccardo DeSalvo, Carlo Galli, Yumei Huang, Alex Ivanov, Szabolcs Marka, David Ottaway, Virginio Sannibale, Chiara Vanni, Hiroaki Yamamoto and Sanichiro Yoshida Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Volume 598, Issue 3, 21 January 2009, Pages 737-753. doi:10.1016/j.nima.2008.10.023