Results from an Experimental Railgun System, ERGS-1A,

Abstract

One phase of the Materials Research Laboratories (MRL) Experimental Rail-gun System (ERGS-1) program is for experimentation in the energy range 50 to 500 kJ. The first, and highly successful, ERGS-1 experiment was conducted in September 1981 using a barrel segment 200 mm in length. Comparison of experimental results with the theory developed by Thio yielded good agreement, particularly the values for capacitor voltage, current through the rails, plasma voltage and muzzle velocity of the projectile. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1983
Accession Number
ADA137801

Entities

People

  • A. J. Bedford
  • Gregory A. Clark
  • Y. C. Thio

Organizations

  • Defence Science and Technology Group

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Aluminum Foil
  • Capacitors
  • Chemistry
  • Electric Propulsion
  • Electrical Circuits
  • Electromagnetic Guns
  • Electromagnetic Propulsion
  • Engineering
  • Guns
  • Jet Propulsion
  • Materials
  • Materials Science
  • Measurement
  • Physical Chemistry
  • Physics
  • Projectiles

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Electrical Engineering
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.
  • ballistics.