Qualification of flat cables made by reel-to-reel processing

Technical Report · Wed Apr 30 04:00:00 EDT 1986

OSTI ID:5680799

Thomes, J A

At the request of Los Alamos, 2500 Mound-fabricated slapper detonator cables were incorporated into an extensive test matrix called the Cable Qualification. The purpose of the Cable Qualification was threefold: (1) to test Mound's recently developed reel-to-reel tape processing under production conditions; (2) to ''prove-in'' the quality of the cables by testing their electrical integrity following various conditioning; and (3) to examine the effect induced on the cables by additional processing steps - diffusion bonding and nickel plating. The results of the Cable Qualification show: (1) Mound's reel-to-reel tape process is capable of fabricating a production quanitity of cables: (2) the cables performed well above acceptable electrical levels following all combinations of conditioning; and (3) there is a wide range of diffusion bonding parameters that will yield a good bond without adversely affecting the cable, and there were no adverse effects inflicted on the cable by the nickel plating process. Since the completion of the fabrication of the Cable Qualification Lot, improvements have been made to many of the reel-to-reel processes which will improve the efficiency of the tape process. 22 figs.

• Research Organization: Monsanto Research Corp., Miamisburg, OH (USA). Mound
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-76DP00053
• OSTI ID: 5680799
• Report Number(s): MLM-3343; ON: DE86011365
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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