Affiliation:
1. Electrical Faculty, Mechatronics Department, Silesian University of Technology, , Poland E-mail: jaroslaw.domin@polsl.pl
Abstract
The growing applications area of an electromagnetic launcher lead to numerous researches on new constructions and analyzes of existing and novel solutions of this type of device. The typical solutions with a coil or rail drive (named coil-gun and rail-gun) as well as a new hybrid construction which is a combination of these two types of drives are known. The paper presents the construction and mathematical model of the hybrid electromagnetic launcher (containing coil-gun and rail-gun module) with pneumatic assists, but the main purpose of this paper is to present measurement and simulation results of rails deformation for an electromagnetic launcher with rails (rail-gun module). The computer simulations were made using Inventor Professional software. In the measurement system the laser displacement sensor was used.
Subject
Electrical and Electronic Engineering,Mechanical Engineering,Mechanics of Materials,Condensed Matter Physics,Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
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