Title :
Current Pulse Requirements For Rail Launchers
Author_Institution :
Culham Laboratory
Abstract :
This paper presents an analysis of the relationship between the launcher current pulse shape and the energy demand at the launcher terminals. The results show that, for a given muzzle energy, reducing the peak current and peak acceleration tends to increase both the jerk and the electrical energy demand. Thus some form of design compromise is necessary to balance the conflicting requirements of low peak acceleration and low jerk.
Keywords :
Acceleration; Circuits; Power supplies; Power system modeling; Projectiles; Pulse shaping methods; Pulsed power supplies; Railguns; Rails; Shape;
Conference_Titel :
Pulsed Power Conference, 1991. Digest of Technical Papers. Eighth IEEE International
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-0177-3
DOI :
10.1109/PPC.1991.733395
