DocumentCode
3369548
Title
Railgun Erosion Simulator
Author
Johnson, Mark ; Cote, Paul ; Campo, Frank ; Vottis, Pat
Author_Institution
Benet Labs., Watervliet, NY
fYear
2005
fDate
13-17 June 2005
Firstpage
245
Lastpage
248
Abstract
The U.S. Army Armament Research, Development, and Engineering Center´s Benet Laboratories is currently developing a diagnostic launcher for use as an erosion simulator to investigate issues associated with the bore life of rail guns. The launcher being developed at Benet provides a test bed for validation of new erosion concepts and serves as a facility for preliminary evaluation of candidate core materials. It has been optimized to provide details about the dominant bore erosion mechanisms observed in larger systems.
Keywords
environmental degradation; railguns; U.S. Army; bore erosion mechanisms; diagnostic launcher; railgun erosion simulator; Aluminum; Capacitors; Circuits; Contact resistance; Inductance; Laboratories; Predictive models; Railguns; Rails; Solids;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Pulsed Power Conference, 2005 IEEE
Conference_Location
Monterey, CA
Print_ISBN
0-7803-9189-6
Electronic_ISBN
0-7803-9190-x
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/PPC.2005.300588
Filename
4084198
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