Railgun Erosion Simulator

Abstract

The U.S. Army Armament Research, Development, and Engineering Center's Benet Laboratories is currently developing a diagnostic launcher for use as an erosion simulator to investigate issues associated with the bore life of rail guns. The launcher being developed at Benet provides a test bed for validation of new erosion concepts and serves as a facility for preliminary evaluation of candidate core materials. It has been optimized to provide details about the dominant bore erosion mechanisms observed in larger systems.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2005
Accession Number
ADA634092

Entities

People

  • Frank Campo
  • Mark A. Johnson
  • Pat Vottis
  • Paul Cote

Organizations

  • United States Army Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aluminum
  • Armatures
  • Capacitors
  • Circuits
  • Control Systems
  • Differential Equations
  • Energy
  • Engineering
  • Equivalent Circuits
  • Guns
  • Launchers
  • Materials
  • Pulsed Power
  • Simulations
  • Simulators
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Test Beds

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Systems Analysis and Design
  • ballistics.