Laser measurement system dedicated to the determination of rails deformation of a hybrid electromagnetic launcher

Issue title: Selected papers from the International Symposium on Electromagnetic Fields in Mechatronics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering – ISEF 2019

Guest editors: Paolo Di Barba, Maria Evelina Mognaschi and Sławomir Wiak

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Domin, Jarosław^a;

Affiliations: [a] Electrical Faculty, Mechatronics Department, Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland E-mail: [email protected]

Correspondence: [*] E-mail: [email protected]

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.

Keywords: Railgun, electromagnetic launcher, hybrid electromagnetic launcher, coilgun, electrodynamic force

DOI: 10.3233/JAE-209515

Journal: International Journal of Applied Electromagnetics and Mechanics, vol. 64, no. S1, pp. S191-S202, 2020