Analysis of railgun barrel material

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 120-125

  Cooper, Khershed P ^a   Jones, Harry N ^a   Meger, Robert A ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alloying; Grooving; Railgun

Indexed keywords

ALLOYING; DRAG; METALLOGRAPHY; MOLTEN MATERIALS; SURFACE TENSION; THIN FILMS;

GROOVING; MAGNETIC INTERACTIONS; MOLTEN ALUMINUM;

RAIL GUNS;

EID: 33846194201     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2006.887654     Document Type: Article

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