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Plasma mass and effective inductance in a small railgun
Abstract
A series of firings of a small caliber plasma-driven electromagnetic
railgun are described in which copper, aluminum and zinc foils are used
to initiate the plasma. Three different masses of each type of foil are
used. Projectile displacement-time profiles in the railgun bore are
constructed from streak camera records and calculations based on
experimental current vs time records are made to obtain effective
inductance per unit length values (L'sub eff) for each firing. The
effects of foil mass and species, plasma voltage and plasma leakage past
the projectile are discussed in relation to the calculated L' sub eff
values.
... Streak camera data are not plotted in the figure detrimental effect of plasma blowby has been observed in but may be found in appendix B. Framing camera photographs similar investigations (ref. 25). ...
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