Since we are open again for questions- and the last one was a good one- it seems we are dealing with two different deals here, at least the airplane engineers I work with would say so.[ I aint gonna ask them cause we aint talking airplanes here,and besides, they dont always get them right !!]<BR> Anyhow, one case ,the more or less instant catastropic failure due to a load which stretches the action or barrel steel beyond its elastic limits,and the other which takes place over time from repeated applications of loads which exceed the design limits resulting in fatigue type failure.I understand that predicting fatigue failure requires something like strain gage data developed from several applications of the load.Has any one developed this data?<BR> So far this represents about 15 min. typing for me
so if I remember what I was going to ask it's a miracle.<BR> Is strain gaging chambers the most reliable method of determining pressures?If not, then what is?
