Title :
Installation and testing of a high L´ laminated railgun
Author_Institution :
Center for Electromech., Texas Univ., Austin, TX, USA
Abstract :
This paper describes the installation of a 9 MJ military railgun into the Electric Armaments Research Center facility (USA) and discusses the performance of the railgun and flexible hexapolar cable bus system during testing. The hexapolar cables have been tested to 34 kV and are rated for a nominal current of 200 kA per cable, and the flexible bus system and breech connection have repeatedly performed successfully at gigawatt power levels. The paper also presents the results of the railgun test program firing two variations of the sabot launched electric gun kinetic energy (SLEKE) projectiles along with an evaluation of the performance of the dispersion strengthened copper rails with transitioning solid armatures.
Keywords :
installation; laminations; military equipment; power cable testing; power supplies to apparatus; pulse generators; pulsed power technology; railguns; 200 kA; 34 kV; 9 MJ; breech connection; flexible hexapolar power cable; high L´ laminated railgun; installation; military railgun; performance; pulsed power cables; railgun power supplies; sabot launched electric gun kinetic energy projectiles; testing; Boring; Copper; Electromagnetic launching; Glass; Partial response channels; Projectiles; Railguns; Rails; Steel; System testing;
Conference_Titel :
Pulsed Power Conference, 1995. Digest of Technical Papers., Tenth IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Albuquerque, NM, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-2791-8
DOI :
10.1109/PPC.1995.596492
