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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Trainor, R.J.
• Parsons, W.M.
• Ballard, E.O.
• Bartsch, R.R.
• Benage, J.F.
• Bennett, G.A.
• Bowers, R.L.
• Bowman, D.W.
• Brownell, J.H.
• Cochrane, J.C.
• Davis, H.A.
• Ekdahl, C.A.
• Fulton, R.D.
• Gribble, R.F.
• Griego, J.R.
• Guzik, J.
• Jones, M.E.
• Hinckley, W.B.
• Hosack, K.W.
• Kasik, R.J.
• Keinigs, R.
• Lee, H.
• Lopez, E.A.
• Lindemuth, I.R.
• Monroe, M.D.
• Moses, R.W.
• Oro, D.
• Ney, S.A.
• Pierce, D.D.
• Platts, D.
• Reass, W.A.
• Reinovsky, R.E.
• Rodriguez, G.
• Salazar, H.R.
• Sandoval, G.M.
• Scudder, D.W.
• Sheppard, M.
• Shlachter, J.S.
• Taylor, A.
• Thompson, M.C.
• Valdez, G.A.
• Watt, R.G.
• Wurden, G.A.

Titel

Overview of the Atlas project

Ist Teil von

• Digest of Technical Papers. 11th IEEE International Pulsed Power Conference (Cat. No.97CH36127), 1997, Vol.1, p.37-46 vol.1

Ort / Verlag

IEEE

Erscheinungsjahr

1997

Quelle

IEEE Xplore Digital Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Atlas is a high energy pulsed power facility under development at Los Alamos National Laboratory to perform high energy-density experiments in support of the DoE's stockpile stewardship responsibility. Its design is optimized for materials properties and hydrodynamics experiments under extreme conditions. Atlas will be operational in late-1999 and is designed to provide 100 shots per year. The Atlas capacitor bank design consists of a 36 MJ array of 240 kV Marx modules. The system is designed to deliver a peak current of 40-50 MA with a 4-5 /spl mu/s risetime. The Marx modules, are designed to be reconfigured to a 480 kV configuration, if needed, for opening switch development. The bank is resistively damped to limit fault currents and capacitor voltage reversal. The system is configured for very low-inductance operation to rapidly implode heavy liner loads. An experimental program for testing and certifying prototype components is underway. For many applications the Atlas liner will be a nominal 70 g aluminum cylinder. Using composite inner layers and a variety of interior target designs, a wide variety of experiments' in /spl sim/cm/sup 3/ volumes may be performed. These include shock compression experiments up to /spl sim/3 TPa (30 Mbar), quasi-adiabatic compressions up to 6-fold compression and pressures above 10 TPa, hydrodynamic instability studies in nonlinear and turbulent regimes over multi-cm propagation lengths, experiments with dense plasmas in the so-called high-gamma regime, studies of materials response at very high strains and strain rates, and materials studies in ultrahigh magnetic fields (above 10/sup 3/ T).