• DocumentCode
    1244487
  • Title

    Design of pulsed coil-guns

  • Author

    Williamson, Sheldon ; Horne, C.D. ; Haugh, D.C.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Eng., Cambridge Univ., UK
  • Volume
    31
  • Issue
    1
  • fYear
    1995
  • Firstpage
    516
  • Lastpage
    521
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Magnetics, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9464
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/20.364639
  • Filename
    364639