HART hypervelocity augmented railgun test facility

Author

Schulman, M. Bruce ; Wootton, Roy E. ; Stefani, Francis ; Fikse, Douglas A. ; Docherty, Edward F. ; DeMarchi, Victor F.

Author_Institution

Westinghouse Sci. & Technol. Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Volume

29

Issue

1

fYear

1993

fDate

1/1/1993 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

505

Lastpage

510

Abstract

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 Al₂O₃ 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

Keywords

electromagnetic launchers; test facilities; 1.27 cm; Al₂O₃; B-dot instrumentation; G-10; GlidCop rails; HART; HART I launcher; ablation; bore design; electromagnetic launcher system; high-velocity projectile; hypervelocity augmented railgun test facility; insulators; square bore; Boring; Electromagnetic launching; Instruments; Insulation; Railguns; Rails; Strips; System testing; Test facilities; Tiles;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Magnetics, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9464

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/20.195627

Filename

195627