Calculation and Analysis of the Inductance Gradient of Serial-stacked Enhanced Railguns

DOI

10.2991/mmme-16.2016.147How to use a DOI?

Keywords

serial-stacked enhanced railguns; inductance gradient; structural parameters

Abstract

Serial-stacked enhanced railguns are with bigger inductance gradient value than simple ones, which is im-portant to improving the energy efficiency and the railguns' launch force. On the basis that the structure and principles of serial-stacked enhanced railguns are introduced. We calculate the inductance gradient of the en-hanced railguns at low frequency. The result is that with a fixed caliber, the inductance gradient value increas-es as the gap of rails increases, and it decreases as width of the rails increases. On the condition that the cali-ber varies with structure parameters of rails by certain rules, the inductance gradient value increases as the gap of rails increases, and it increases as thickness of the rails increases, as well. The analysis lays the foundation for the serial-stacked enhanced railguns' design, which is of certain value to the railguns' application.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Z.M. Qiao
AU  - B. Lei
AU  - Q.A. Lv
AU  - Y.C. Xing
PY  - 2016/10
DA  - 2016/10
TI  - Calculation and Analysis of the Inductance Gradient of Serial-stacked Enhanced Railguns
BT  - Proceedings of the 2016 4th International Conference on Mechanical Materials and Manufacturing Engineering
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 621
EP  - 624
SN  - 2352-5401
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DO  - 10.2991/mmme-16.2016.147
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