Electromagnetic Field Measurements Near a Railgun

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 698-703

  Coburn, William O ^a   Le, Calvin ^a   DeTroye, David J ^a   Blair, Gordon E ^a   Williams, Warren ^b  

^a U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b US Army ARDEC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; CAPACITORS; DATA STRUCTURES; ELECTRIC CURRENT DISTRIBUTION; ELECTRIC WAVEFORMS; ELECTRIC WINDINGS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RAIL GUNS;

DIELECTRIC SPACERS; METAL ARMATURE; MUZZLE ARCING; QUASI STATIC ARMATURE ACCELERATION; RAIL CURRENT DISTRIBUTION; SQUARE BORE RAILGUN;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0029219636     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: 19410069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.364608     Document Type: Article

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