Laminated low cost rails and armatures for rail launchers

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 35, Issue 1 PART 1, 1999, Pages 423-426

  Marshall, Richard A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

armature component; electromagnetic propulsion; flexible armature; laminated rail; rail component; railgun

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONDUCTORS; ELECTRIC CONTACTS; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTROMAGNETIC PROPULSION;

ARMATURES; LAMINATED LOW COST RAILS; RAIL LAUNCHERS;

RAIL GUNS;

EID: 0032665384     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.738444     Document Type: Article

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