Electromechanical railgun model

Journal Article · Mon Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 1991 · IEEE Transactions on Magnetics (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers); (United States)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1109/20.102944· OSTI ID:7087419

Hively, L M ^[1]; Condit, W C ^[2]

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1. Applied Technology Div., Oak Ridge National Lab., Martin Marietta Energy Systems, Inc. Oak Ridge, TN (US)
2. Los Alamos National Lab., NM (United States)

In this paper, the electromechanical aspects of railgun motion are modeled analytically. A Lagrangian formulation is used to obtain the force and circuit equations, which are then solved for energy conservation and resistive flux decay. The resulting integral equation is solved for the barrel length as a measure of the launcher size and cost.

• OSTI ID: 7087419
• Journal Information: IEEE Transactions on Magnetics (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers); (United States), Vol. 27:4; ISSN 0018-9464
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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