Experimental Study on the Expansion Uniformity of Armature

A measurement system has been developed based on high-precision printed probes in printed circuit board (PCB) and steep rising-time probe adapters, which can be applied to study the expansion uniformity of armature in a helical magnetic flux compression generator (HFCG). The influences of wall thickness and initiation position on the expansion uniformity of armature in HFCG were experimentally investigated. The results show that the armature with thinner wall thickness will easily rupture due to the high pressure of detonation products inside, the armature with larger wall thickness will easily crack due to the tensile stress on the outer surface of the wall,the influence of the end effect on the expansion uniformity can be ignored if the distance between the first group of probe and the initiation point is more than 3 times the armature diameter.