Design and Testing of a Rapid Fire, Lightweight, Ultra Stiff Railgun for a Cannon Caliber Electromagnetic Launcher System

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 365-370

  Werst, M D ^a   Cook, K G ^a   Kitzmiller, J R ^a   Liu, H P ^a   Price, J H ^a   Yun, H D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; FABRICATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GEOMETRY; OPTIMIZATION; RAIL GUNS; SYNCHRONOUS GENERATORS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

CANNON CALIBER ELECTROMAGNETIC LAUNCHER SYSTEM; CERAMIC SIDEWALLS; ELECTROMAGNETIC LOADING; TWO DIMENSIONAL; ULTRA STIFF RAIL GUN;

ELECTROMAGNETIC LAUNCHERS;

EID: 0029232966     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: 19410069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.364660     Document Type: Article

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7. Balloting analysis performed by Larry Burton of Army Research Laboratory, January 1994.