Radiated fields in rail launchers operation

Author

Tellini, Andrea ; Tellini, Bernardo ; Genovesi, Gianluca

Author_Institution

Dipt. di Sistemi Eletrici e Automazione, Pisa Univ., Italy

Volume

37

Issue

1

fYear

2001

fDate

1/1/2001 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

462

Lastpage

465

Abstract

In this paper electromagnetic fields radiated from a railgun operating system with a plasma armature are investigated. A small-bore railgun has been fabricated in their laboratory, a capacitor bank (0.12 F-160 V) has been used as energy supply and an experimental setup has been implemented. Experiments have been performed in a remotely operated shielded semi-anechoic chamber in conformity with current standards. The analysis has been conducted in the time domain, using suitable current probes and antennas and an oscilloscope with high bandwidth and high sampling rate. Results were reproducible and a comparison and discussion with previous work are reported

Keywords

capacitor storage; electromagnetic fields; field strength measurement; power capacitors; pulsed power supplies; railguns; 0.12 F; 160 V; antennas; capacitor bank; current probes; electromagnetic fields radiation; energy supply; oscilloscope; plasma armature; rail launchers operation; remotely operated shielded semi-anechoic chamber; time domain; Capacitors; Electromagnetic fields; Laboratories; Operating systems; Oscilloscopes; Plasmas; Probes; Railguns; Rails; Time domain analysis;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Magnetics, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9464

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/20.911877

Filename

911877