Design and testing of the power electronics for the cannon caliber electromagnetic gun system

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 33, Issue 1 PART 1, 1997, Pages 484-489

  Penney, C E ^a   Hotz, T J ^a   Kitzmiller, J R ^a   Werst, M D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC COILS; ELECTRIC DISCHARGES; ELECTRIC EXCITATION; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS; MOS DEVICES; RAIL GUNS; SYNCHRONOUS GENERATORS; VARISTORS;

CANNON CALIBER ELECTROMAGNETIC GUN SYSTEM; SKID MOUNTED COMPULSATOR DRIVEN RAILGUNS;

POWER ELECTRONICS;

EID: 0030682376     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.560060     Document Type: Article

References (4)

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