Solid armature performance: A progress review 1980-1990

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 33, Issue 1 PART 1, 1997, Pages 134-139

  Persad, Chadee ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONTACTS; ELECTRIC CURRENT DISTRIBUTION; ELECTRIC LOADS; FRICTION; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); LOADS (FORCES); PLASMA ACCELERATORS; THERMAL EFFECTS; WEAR OF MATERIALS;

SOLID ARMATURES;

ELECTROMAGNETIC LAUNCHERS;

EID: 0030708219     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.559918     Document Type: Article

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