Cracking and dominant stresses in the throat region of C-shaped solid armatures

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 418-421

  Watt, T J ^a   Bryant, M D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

Cracking; Solid armatures; Throat region

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM ALLOYS; CRACK INITIATION; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; PINCH EFFECT; PLASTIC DEFORMATION; THERMAL EXPANSION; THERMAL STRESS;

MAGNETIC STRESSES; QUENCH CRACKING; SOLID ARMATURES; THROAT REGIONS;

RAIL GUNS;

EID: 33846229221     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2006.887428     Document Type: Article

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