For a service pressure according to most, no.

But Bell has shown that it's well within survivability.

One would expect to see signs of distress before actual failure, such as deformation if the metal is being pushed beyond it's elastic limits.

This is why I said in an earlier post that such a sudden failure would be unexpected given what we know now, because pattern welded material has shown ductility rather than brittleness in testing.

Unexpected does not mean impossible.


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