New Concepts of Electromagnetic Railgun: Synchronous Multi-Barrel-Launch Powered by Single Power Supply

Author

Wang, Ying ; Zhang, Jiange ; Zhang, Guoan ; Shu, Long

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. Eng., Wuhan Univ., Wuhan

fYear

2008

fDate

10-13 June 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Synchronously launching lots of projectiles to form barrage against missile is necessary in some occasions . This paper presents four new concept of electromagnetic rail launchers volleying projectiles powered by single high-power pulsed power supply, named respectively as multi-barrel parallel, common armature, multi-barrel serial, armature serial. This paper gives their work principles, equivalent circuits for analysis in theory, basic equations, and compares them with each other. At last it is indicated that these inventions are significant and valuable for the development of electromagnetic launch technology and science, and they have a lot of potential applications.

Keywords

equivalent circuits; pulsed power supplies; railguns; armature serial; common armature; electromagnetic rail launchers; electromagnetic railgun; equivalent circuits; missile; multibarrel serial; pulsed power supply; synchronous multibarrel-launch; synchronously launching lots; volleying projectiles; Circuit analysis; EMP radiation effects; Electromagnetic launching; Equivalent circuits; Missiles; Power supplies; Projectiles; Pulsed power supplies; Railguns; Rails;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electromagnetic Launch Technology, 2008 14th Symposium on

Conference_Location

Victoria, BC

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1832-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1833-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ELT.2008.62

Filename

4657622