HART hypervelocity augmented railgun test facility

1993; IEEE Magnetics Society; Volume: 29; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1109/20.195627

ISSN

1941-0069

Autores

M.B. Schulman, R. E. Wootton, F. Stefani, D.A. Fikse, E.F. Docherty, V.F. DeMarchi,

Tópico(s)

Plasma Diagnostics and Applications

Resumo

The HART facility is a flexible multibank system for testing independently augmented railgun concepts. The HART I launcher has a 1.27-cm square bore with GlidCop rails and Al/sub 2/O/sub 3/ insulators. The bore components and augmentation turns are supported by G-10. Features which make HART I well suited for research on the approach of independent augmentation are its bore design, which can accommodate a variety of insulator types in tile or strip form, and the densely placed B-dot instrumentation. The results of the HART test demonstrate positively that it is possible to design an electromagnetic launcher system which produces high-velocity projectile launches with very low ablation. >

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