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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Wu, Jin-guo
• Tang, Bo
• Lin, Qing-hua
• Li, Hai-yuan
• Li, Bao-ming

Titel

3D numerical simulation and analysis of railgun gouging mechanism

Ist Teil von

• Defence Technology（防务技术）, 2016-04, Vol.12 (2), p.90-95

Ort / Verlag

Elsevier B.V

Erscheinungsjahr

2016

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• A gouging phenomenon with a hypervelocity sliding electrical contact in railgun not only shortens the rail lifetime but also affects the interior ballistic performance. In this paper, a 3-D numerical model was introduced to simulate and analyze the generation mechanism and evolution of the rail gouging phenomenon. The results show that a rail surface bulge is an important factor to induce gouging. High density and high pressure material flow on the contact surface, obliquely extruded into the rail when accelerating the armature to a high velocity, can produce gouging. Both controlling the bulge size to a certain range and selecting suitable materials for rail surface coating will suppress the formation of gouging. The numerical simulation had a good agreement with experiments, which validated the computing model and methodology are reliable.