Comparative study of railgun housings made of modern fiber wound materials, ceramic, or insulated steel plates

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 41, Issue 1 II, 2005, Pages 200-205

  Lehmann, Pascale ^a   Vo, Minh Duc ^a   Wenning, Walter ^a  

^a FRENCH GERMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF SAINT LOUIS   (France)

Author keywords

Composite materials; Electromagnetic forces; Rail housing; Rail launchers

Indexed keywords

CERAMIC MATERIALS; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; FIBERS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); PROJECTILES; STEEL; STIFFNESS; STRESSES; TWO DIMENSIONAL; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FORCE; FIBER WOUND MATERIALS; RAIL HOUSINGS; RAIL LAUNCHERS;

RAIL GUNS;

EID: 12344322937     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2004.838996     Document Type: Article

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