Design and evaluation of carbon fibre-reinforced launch packages with segmented, copper and molybdenum fibre armatures

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 33, Issue 1 PART 1, 1997, Pages 119-124

  Koops, Marcel ^a   Huijser, Timo ^a   Karthaus, Willem ^a  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON FIBERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COPPER; ELECTRIC COILS; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE MEASUREMENT; FIBER REINFORCED MATERIALS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MOLYBDENUM; PROBES;

CARBON FIBER REINFORCED LAUNCH PACKAGES; COPPER FIBER ARMATURES; MAGNETIC FIELD DIFFUSION; MOLYBDENUM FIBER ARMATURES; SEGMENTED ARMATURES;

ELECTROMAGNETIC LAUNCHERS;

EID: 0030677006     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.559915     Document Type: Article

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