Browsing by Author "Aanstoos, T.A."
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Application of Homopolar Pulsed Power to Metals Joining
(1983-04)Homopolar generators (HPGs) presently being developed at the Center for Electromechanics are capable of delivering megampere pulses of electric current in a controllable manner. One application for these machines is as the ... -
Billet Heating with The Homopolar Generator
(1982-11)Recent and ongoing research concerned with homopolar generators operated in a pulse mode and making use of kinetic energy storage principles has led to the application of these techniques to forging billet heating. Cylindrical ... -
Current Collectors Operating in High Magnetic Fields
(1987-11)An air core, superconducting field coil, self-motored, pulsed homopolar generator has been built and tested. This device uses multiple voltage generating passes and five Tesla magnetic field density to develop open circuit ... -
Design and Fabrication of a Tandem, Five Megamapere Initiate Switch for the Battery Upgraded Supply
(IEEE, 1993-01)The authors report on the design, fabrication, and component testing for the tandem initiate switch system for the battery upgraded supply, in which each armature is rated for a 3 s rise to 2.5 MA peak current (2.8 MA ... -
Design of a Dissipation Circuit for a 560 MJ Inductive Storage Supply
(IEEE, 1993-01)The authors report on the design and component testing of a dissipation circuit for a 560 MJ inductive storage supply. This storage supply is charged by a 5 MA battery power supply. This battery upgraded supply (BUS) ... -
Development and Testing of Experimental Materials and Designs for Pulsed and Continuous Duty High Current, High Slip Speed, Generator Contacts
(IEEE, 1988-03)The development of homopolar generators (HPGs) capable of producing high currents at high slip speeds requires current collectors that exhibit good electrical properties as well as good frictional properties at high ... -
Disassembly Process for a Cathode Ray Tube
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Energy Model for End-of-Life Computer Disposition
(IEEE, 1998-10)Electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection of an integrated circuit's (IC's) high voltage power pins is achieved without damage to thin oxides by dividing the steady-state voltage and arranging weak forward bias of the diodes ... -
Final Design and Manufacture of a Modular Sixty Megajoule Pulsed Homopolar Generator Power Supply
(IEEE, 1986)The Center for Electromechanics at The University of Texas at Austin (CEM-UT) has designed and built high-energy pulsed homopolar generators (HPG's) since 1972. A 5-megajoule (MJ) disc-type HPG was built and tested in 1974 ... -
Five-Megajoule Homopolar Upgrade
(1981-06)The five-megajoule homopolar generator (5-MJ HPG) designed and built in 1974 by the Center for Electromechanics at the University of Texas at Austin (CEM-UT) was the result of an engineering feasibility study that examined ... -
High Voltage Stator for a Flywheel Energy Storage System
(IEEE, 2001-01)The University of Texas at Austin Center for Electromechanics (UT-CEM) has designed and conducted component test/development for a flywheel energy storage system for pulsed loads and mobility load leveling in a tactical ... -
Homopolar Generator Charged Inductors
(IEEE, 1985-06)The Center for Electromechanics at The University of Texas at Austin (CEM-UT) has carried out several major experimental programs using homopolar generator (HPG)-charged inductors; namely, the fast discharge experiment ... -
Homopolar Pulse Welding of Rail
(1983-11)The homopolar pulse welding process uses a single unidirectional, high current electrical pulse from a homopolar generator to heat the interface between two workpieces in solid contact. When the interface reaches an optimum ... -
Homopolar Pulsed Welding for Offshore Applications
(1990-10)As a low impedance energy-storage device, the pulsed homopolar generator (RPG) is capable cif delivering a multimegawatt, megampere-current pulse into a resistive or inductive load with high efficiency. Such HPGs have been ... -
Homopolar Pulsed Welding for Offshore Applications
(, 1990-02)As a low impedance energy storage device, the pulsed homopolar generator (HPG) is capable of delivering a multimegawatt, megampere-current pulse into a resistive or inductive load with high efficiency. Such HPGs have been ...
