Performance of a copper-silver alloy as an electromagnetic launcher conductor material

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 41, Issue 1 II, 2005, Pages 176-181

  Castro Dettmer, Zachira ^a   Persad, Chadee ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Copper silver alloys; Electromagnetic launch; Material properties; Strain hardening

Indexed keywords

COPPER ALLOYS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; KINETIC ENERGY; MELTING; MICROSTRUCTURE; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; SILVER ALLOYS; STRAIN HARDENING; THERMOANALYSIS;

CARBON FIBER-REINFORCED MATERIALS; CONDUCTOR MATERIALS; MATERIAL PROPERTIES; ROOM TEMPERATURE;

ELECTROMAGNETIC LAUNCHERS;

EID: 12344316301     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2004.838926     Document Type: Article

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