Title :
A 38 KJ Two-stage Railgun Device
Author :
Hou, W.S. ; Kuo, Y.Y. ; Yeh, C.K. ; Tzeng, C.C. ; Wen, M. ; Yu, Y.Z. ; Song, P.S. ; Yeh, T.R.
Author_Institution :
Institute of Nuclear Energy Research
Abstract :
A 38 KJ two-stage railaun device has been designed and constructed for hypervelocity acceleration studies. This device included an electrothermal accelerator together with a railgun system. The former takes the advantage of burning the metallic foils to generate Plasma pulse for the acceleration. The latter consisted of a capacitor bank, a pulse transformer, and a rail-type acceleration section. Polyethylene Projectile of 2 gm has been accelerated up to 1.25 km/see typically.
Keywords :
Acceleration; Capacitors; Electrothermal effects; Optical buffering; Optical transmitters; Plasma accelerators; Plasma devices; Projectiles; Pulse transformers; Railguns;
Conference_Titel :
Pulsed Power Conference, 1991. Digest of Technical Papers. Eighth IEEE International
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-0177-3
DOI :
10.1109/PPC.1991.733233
