5th Symposium on Electromagnetic Launcher Technology

The following topics are dealt with: the 10 km/s, 10 kg railgun; railgun performance with a two-stage light-gas gun injector; design and testing of 0.60 caliber augmented railgun; final design of an air-core compulsator driven 60 caliber railgun system; electromagnetic acceleration studies with augmented rails; a second-generation EMET railgun for secondary arc studies; mass sensitivity studies for an inductively driven railgun; conformal mapping calculation of railgun skin inductance; distributed energy store railgun: the limited case; time resolved optical diagnostic methods for electric gun systems; E/M launcher vibration and acceleration data analysis; a control algorithm for reluctance accelerators; visualization of plasma-fluid mixing through X-ray shadowgraphy; the Hart 1 augmented electric gun facility; post-shot analysis of plasma/rail interaction in a small-bore load driving EML; a review of armature research; large and small caliber railgun solid armatures; a new concept in solid armature design; design and testing of solid armatures for rail accelerator applications; a new approach to a high-efficiency inductive store; metal-to-metal for large currents; lightweight high-efficiency energy-storage transformers; studies to reduce material erosion in electrothermal launchers; the EMET railgun projectile; exploratory development of the Reconnection Launcher 1986-90; and design of a reluctance accelerator