A decade of railgun development for high pressure research
This paper summarizes a decade of effort towards development of railguns into useful high pressure tools. In 1942 the first successful railgun accelerated a 10-g projectile to about 1 km/s, and in the 1960's velocities approaching 10 km/s were achieved, but without verification of projectile integrity. Later work at the Australian National University showed the potential of railguns to launch intact projectiles. About 10 years ago efforts began to develop railguns for a variety of purposes, including high pressure shock wave equation-of-state (EOS) research. Problems and their causes in this research are now more clearly understood and efforts are being made to develop the railgun into a hypervelocity EOS tool.
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (USA)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-48
- OSTI ID:
- 6842595
- Report Number(s):
- UCRL-99246; CONF-8809109-5; ON: DE88017024
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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