Observation and simulation of armature contact performance in the cannon-caliber electromagnetic gun

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 33, Issue 1 PART 1, 1997, Pages 157-162

  Zielinski, Alexander ^a  

^a U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRETS; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MILITARY APPLICATIONS;

ARMATURE TO RAIL INTERFACE; CANNON CALIBER ELECTROMAGNETIC GUN (CCEMG) PROGRAM; MULTISHOT SYSTEM DEMONSTRATOR; SOFTWARE PACKAGE ARMS;

RAIL GUNS;

EID: 0030676626     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.559935     Document Type: Article

References (10)

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