The use of electronic components in railgun projectiles

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 578-583

  Ciolini, Riccardo ^a,b   Schneider, Markus ^b   Tellini, Bernardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

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

Author keywords

Coil; Electromagnetic compatibility; Electromagnetic field; Magnetic field; Payloads; Railgun; Spark gap

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC ARCS; ELECTROMAGNETIC COMPATIBILITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; MAGNETIC FIELDS; NETWORK COMPONENTS; PROJECTILES; RAIL GUNS; THERMOELECTRIC EQUIPMENT;

CLOSING SWITCHES; COIL; ELECTROMAGNETIC HARDENING; ELECTRONIC COMPONENT; ELECTRONIC DEVICE; PAYLOADS; SPARK-GAPS; STATIC EXPERIMENTS;

MAGNETOPLASMA;

EID: 59849101355     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2008.2008431     Document Type: Article

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