Coilgun Technology at The Center for Electromechanics, The University of Texas at Austin

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dc.creatorBresie, D.A.en
dc.creatorIngram, S.K.en
dc.date.accessioned2015-09-04T16:06:55Zen
dc.date.available2015-09-04T16:06:55Zen
dc.date.issued1993-01en
dc.description.abstractThe engineering trade-offs performed on a coilgun design are described. The concept used was that of a collapsing field accelerator. This concept was chosen because of its passive operation, and because it lent itself to existing power supplies. The trade-offs described concern stress, maximum temperature rise in conductors, efficiency, time constants of the energy storage element, and weight. An example of such a trade-off concerns the mass of coilgun armatures. The more massive an armature, the greater its ability to absorb resistive losses and the higher its time constant. However, larger armature lower payload efficiency. Another trade-off concerns the fraction of armature weight that is devoted to structure. More highly stressed armatures have more attractive electrical performance at the expense of parasitic weighten
dc.description.departmentCenter for Electromechanicsen
dc.identifierPR_158en
dc.identifier.citationD.A. Bresie and S.K. Ingram, “Coilgun technology at the Center for Electromechanics, The University of Texas at Austin,” IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, vol. 29, no. 1, January 1993, pp. 649-654F.en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2152/30878en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherIEEEen
dc.relation.ispartofCEM Publicationsen
dc.rights.restrictionopenen
dc.subjectEM Launchen
dc.subjectcoilgunen
dc.subjectarmatureen
dc.subjectem gunen
dc.subjectrailgunen
dc.titleCoilgun Technology at The Center for Electromechanics, The University of Texas at Austinen
dc.typearticleen

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