Experiments to measure melt-wave erosion in railgun armatures

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 39, Issue 1 I, 2003, Pages 188-192

  Stefani, Francis ^a   Merrill, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Current melt wave soft catch; Electromagnetic launcher; Melt wave erosion; Perimeter erosion; Railgun; Transition to arcing contact

Indexed keywords

CAVITATION CORROSION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CURRENT DENSITY; ELECTRIC CONTACTS; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTROMAGNETIC LAUNCHERS; SKIN EFFECT;

CONTACT TRANSITIONS; CURRENT MELT - WAVE SOFT CATCH; MELT - WAVE EROSION; PERIMETER EROSION; RAILGUN ARMATURES;

RAIL GUNS;

EID: 0037230503     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2002.805955     Document Type: Article

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