The HART I augmented electric gun facility

Conference · Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1991 · IEEE Transactions on Magnetics (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers); (United States)

OSTI ID:5523399

Fikse, D A; Ciesar, J A; Wehrli, H A; Rimersma, H; Docherty, E F; Pipich, C W ^[1]

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1. Westinghouse Science and Technology Center, Pittsburgh, PA (US)

This paper reports on an augmented electric gun system that has been commissioned. This system, called HART I (Hypervelocity Augmented Railgun Test), is built around a double augmented rail arrangement with a 1.27-cm square bore. It is powered by the SUVAC II 5.6-MJ distributed capacitor power supply. This arrangement allows operation in a simple, series augmented, or transaugmented gun system configuration. The objective of this facility is to perform materials research augmentation studies, and armature development in the 10-km/s regime. Armature masses of 2 to 4 g will be accelerated in a 4-m long barrel. Baseline bore materials will begin with conventional G9/GlidCop systems and then move into pyrolytic boron nitride/refractory materials. Hybrids, plasma, and ablation stabilized armature systems are planned. The gun system is instrumented with plasma and rail B-dot probes for inbore velocity measurements. In addition, breech and muzzle voltages, currents, and external velocities are measured. The HART I system is currently performing hypervelocity experiments to verify the augmentation models.

• OSTI ID: 5523399
• Report Number(s): CONF-9004136-; CODEN: IEMGA
• Journal Information: IEEE Transactions on Magnetics (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers); (United States), Vol. 27:1; Conference: 5. IEEE symposium on electromagnetic launcher technology, Destin, FL (United States), 1-5 Apr 1990; ISSN 0018-9464
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY
PLASMA GUNS
MATERIALS TESTING
TEST FACILITIES
BORON NITRIDES
CAPACITORS
HYBRID REACTORS
PLANNING
PLASMA ACCELERATION
PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS
POWER SUPPLIES
PROBES
RAILGUN ACCELERATORS
REFRACTORIES
RESEARCH PROGRAMS
VELOCITY
ACCELERATION
ACCELERATORS
BORON COMPOUNDS
ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT
ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT
EQUIPMENT
NITRIDES
NITROGEN COMPOUNDS
PNICTIDES
TESTING
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