Observation and simulation of solid-armature railgun performance

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 35, Issue 1 PART 1, 1999, Pages 84-89

  Powell, John D ^a   Zielinski, Alexander E ^a  

^a U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Armature dynamics; Armature wear; Solidarmature railgun

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; TWO DIMENSIONAL; VELOCITY;

ARMATURE DYNAMICS; ARMATURE WEAR; SOLID ARMATURE RAILGUN;

RAIL GUNS;

EID: 0032657711     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.738382     Document Type: Article

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