Pulsed current static electrical contact experiment

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 343-348

  Jones, Harry N ^a   Neri, Jesse M ^a   Boyer, Craig N ^b   Cooper, Khershed P ^a   Meger, Robert A ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b TITAN CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Dissimilar metals; Electrical contacts; Pulsed current; Railgun

Indexed keywords

CURRENT DENSITY; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC LOADS; PROJECTILES; RAIL GUNS; THERMAL EFFECTS; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES; TRANSIENTS; VOLTAGE MEASUREMENT;

CURRENT PULSES; HYPERVELOCITY; INTERFACE MATERIALS; SERVOHYDRAULIC LOAD; VOLTAGE DROP;

ELECTRIC CONTACTS;

EID: 33846209532     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2006.887716     Document Type: Article

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