Performance of a 100-kV, 78kJ electric-gun system
Abstract
An electric gun system was constructed for use in high-pressure equation of state studies. The system is powered by a 100 kV, 15.6 micron F capacitor bank. At 100 kV charging voltage the system inductance is 23 nH. This system has driven 0.3 mm-thick Kapton projectiles to 20 km/s and 0.3 mm Kapton/30 micrometer Ta projectiles to approximately 10 km/s. Projectile velocity is modeled phenomenlogically by an electrical Gurney model.
- Publication:
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Presented at the APS Conf. on Shock Waves in Condensed Matter
- Pub Date:
- June 1981
- Bibcode:
- 1981aps..confS....C
- Keywords:
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- Capacitors;
- Equations Of State;
- High Pressure;
- Railgun Accelerators;
- Shock Wave Generators;
- High Voltages;
- Kapton (Trademark);
- Ohmic Dissipation;
- Projectiles;
- Velocity;
- Electronics and Electrical Engineering