So, AmarilloMike - My next question would be, anyone know what the typical designed safety factor of modern fluid steel shotgun barrels might be? Bill
I don't know any of the design safety factors for firearms. I just was taught the engineering design principle back in the seventies.
The principle of fatigue design safety factors were taught to us also.
My son graduated a couple of years ago with a mechanical engineering degree and they had a new design principle using computers that I only vaguely understood. They would simulate the part until fatigue failure and then beef that area up and do it again and again. They would also cheapen the part in areas that didn't have a fatigue problem until it did and then beef back up. Anyway that is what I understood him to say.
Best,
Mike
