Why "C" armatures work (and why they don't?)

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 39, Issue 1 I, 2003, Pages 52-55

  Haugh, David C ^a   Hainsworth, Grant M G ^b  

^a DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b QINETIQ   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Contacts; EM propulsion; Railguns

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONTACTS; ELECTROMAGNETIC PROPULSION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERFORMANCE; PLASMA DEVICES; SKIN EFFECT;

KIRKCUDBRIGHT RANGE; PLASMA ARMATURES; VELOCITY SKIN EFFECT;

RAIL GUNS;

EID: 0037235561     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2002.805910     Document Type: Article

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