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Critical current density in railgun accelerators with composite electrodes

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Institute of Hydrodynamics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk 630090. Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika i Tekhnicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 36, No. 3, pp. 10–17, May–June, 1995.

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Stankevich, S.V., Shvetsov, G.A. Critical current density in railgun accelerators with composite electrodes. J Appl Mech Tech Phys 36, 329–335 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02369767

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