Title :
Design of pulsed coil-guns
Author :
Williamson, Sheldon ; Horne, C.D. ; Haugh, D.C.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Eng., Cambridge Univ., UK
Abstract :
The paper describes a two-step procedure for designing pulsed coil guns to suit a given power supply. The stator is designed coil-by-coil using an overlapped optimisation procedure that takes account of inter-coil coupling. The armature is designed by notionally removing material from an oversize blank on the basis of a utility factor calculated from the local force distribution.<>
Keywords :
design engineering; electromagnetic launchers; optimisation; pulsed power technology; stators; coil-by-coil design; inter-coil coupling; local force distribution; overlapped optimisation; oversize blank; power supply; pulsed coil guns; stator; utility factor; Coils; Current measurement; Design optimization; Extrapolation; Guns; Power engineering and energy; Projectiles; Pulsed power supplies; Shape; Stators;
Journal_Title :
Magnetics, IEEE Transactions on
