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Railgun With Steel Barrel Sections and Thermal Management System.
- Source :
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IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science . Feb2015, Vol. 43 Issue 5, p1642-1646. 5p. - Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- By electrically isolating sections from the breech to the muzzle of a specially designed metal gun barrel (steel), the boundary conditions used in the 1984 paper by Kerrisk are changed. The result allows a metal gun barrel to be located close to the current-carrying rails while still maintaining high inductance per unit length ( $L^\prime $ ). Descriptions of two designs of two-rail open air railguns that use this result for an efficient gun are presented. Each current-carrying rail is supported by its own steel barrel section. For each case, a thermal management system is included. The open gun bore is directly exposed to the atmosphere or a gas ambient if a dielectric enclosure is used, along the gun’s entire length. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00933813
- Volume :
- 43
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 102575786
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1109/TPS.2015.2411259