Elastic waves and solid armature contact pressure in electromagnetic launchers

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 422-429

  Johnson, Anthony J ^a   Moon, Francis C ^b  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b Cornell University   (United States)

Author keywords

Contact pressure; Critical velocity; Elastic waves; Electromagnetic launcher

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC LAUNCHERS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRESSURE EFFECTS; VELOCITY CONTROL;

ARMATURE TRANSITIONING; CONTACT PRESSURE; CRITICAL VELOCITY; TRANSIENT DYNAMICS;

ELASTIC WAVES;

EID: 33846195628     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2005.862105     Document Type: Article

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