Title :
Measurement of rail gun projectile velocities by shorted transmission line techniques
Author_Institution :
Austin Research Associates, Austin, Texas
fDate :
11/1/1986 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
A passive, non-intrusive diagnostic for determination of rail gun projectile position and velocity during acceleration may be possible by measurements of the shorted transmission line characteristics of the gun rail-armature system.
Keywords :
Electromagnetic propulsion; Transmission line measurements; Velocity measurement; Acceleration; Copper; Plasmas; Projectiles; Radio frequency; Rails; Resonance; Skin; Transmission line measurements; Velocity measurement;
Journal_Title :
Magnetics, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TMAG.1986.1064705
