As part of an EM (electromagnetic) gun technology demonstration program, a systematic design approach targeted at identifying critical gun design constraints affecting hypervelocity projectile performance has been pursued. Results of the study led to a laboratory-based EM gun design that provides bore straightness and tolerances characteristic of light-gas guns, dynamic bore deformations comparable to those of conventional guns, the ability to change and test rail/sidewall insulator materials quickly, and superior in-bore performance diagnostics. A high-stiffness, easily maintained, precision-bore 9-MJ EM launcher has been designed and fabrication is virtually complete. A half-scale prototype of this hydraulically prestressed EM gun design has been fabricated and successfully tested. The authors discuss the railgun design approach and performance parameters, the analytical and empirical railgun structured simulation techniques used to validate the full scale gun design, and the fabrication status and initial performance test results


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    Title :

    Design and testing of large-bore, ultra-stiff railguns


    Additional title:

    Entwurf und Test von grosskalibrigen, steifen Railguns


    Contributors:


    Publication date :

    1989


    Size :

    7 Seiten, 15 Quellen



    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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