Progress on developing the "magnetic obturator," a novel railgun armature

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 39, Issue 1 I, 2003, Pages 86-91

  Stefani, Francis ^a   Parker, Jerald V ^b   Watt, Trevor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Armature; Railgun; Transition; Wear

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC ARCS; ELECTRIC CONTACTS; MAGNETIC DEVICES; WEAR OF MATERIALS;

ARCING CONTACT; MAGNETIC OBTURATOR; RAILGUN ARMATURES;

RAIL GUNS;

EID: 0037230499     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2002.805889     Document Type: Article

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