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Army physicist expands hypervelocity projectiles research in German assignment
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. (Sept. 11, 2015) -- A U.S. Army scientist has broadened the understanding of projectiles in the hypervelocity range during his exchange-program research in Germany.
Research physicist Dr. W. Casey Uhlig spent August 2014 to June 2015 at the Ernst Mach Institute through the Army’s Engineer and Scientist Exchange Program.
While considering the program, he was interested in using light-gas guns and discovered that EMI had the facilities and expertise to facilitate this research.
A light-gas gun uses helium or hydrogen to help generate hypervelocity speeds, which aid scientists in understanding the behavior of projectiles and hypervelocity impacts. The gun at EMI fires projectiles up to 8,000 meters per second in an indoor facility, Uhlig said.
“One of my projects was being able to detect and characterize very small hypervelocity projectiles. How fast is it going? How big is it? I came up with an electromagnetic method to be able to detect and characterize particles down to half a millimeter in size,” he said.
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Army physicist expands hypervelocity projectiles research in German assignment
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. (Sept. 11, 2015) -- A U.S. Army scientist has broadened the understanding of projectiles in the hypervelocity range during his exchange-program research in Germany.
Research physicist Dr. W. Casey Uhlig spent August 2014 to June 2015 at the Ernst Mach Institute through the Army’s Engineer and Scientist Exchange Program.
While considering the program, he was interested in using light-gas guns and discovered that EMI had the facilities and expertise to facilitate this research.
A light-gas gun uses helium or hydrogen to help generate hypervelocity speeds, which aid scientists in understanding the behavior of projectiles and hypervelocity impacts. The gun at EMI fires projectiles up to 8,000 meters per second in an indoor facility, Uhlig said.
“One of my projects was being able to detect and characterize very small hypervelocity projectiles. How fast is it going? How big is it? I came up with an electromagnetic method to be able to detect and characterize particles down to half a millimeter in size,” he said.
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