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Rifles, Reloading, Optics, Equipment
Rifles, Bullets, Barrels & Ballistics
are carbon fiber barrels the wave of the future?
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<blockquote data-quote="Trey1096" data-source="post: 1977837" data-attributes="member: 113007"><p>You can think of a spiral fluted barrel as being a small diameter barrel wrapped in cosmetic flutes. With a straight fluted barrel, the flutes are structural load carrying elements.</p><p></p><p>These are generalizations, but basically true.</p><p></p><p>With the CF, the carbon wrap acts in a composite manner with the steel core. They both contribute strength. I would think the main two stresses would be bursting and bending. The CF wrap can be oriented at different angles to add bursting strength or to add stiffness. So 2 CF wraps, each with the same fiber and f/r ratio, could have drastically different properties because of differences in fiber orientation.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Trey1096, post: 1977837, member: 113007"] You can think of a spiral fluted barrel as being a small diameter barrel wrapped in cosmetic flutes. With a straight fluted barrel, the flutes are structural load carrying elements. These are generalizations, but basically true. With the CF, the carbon wrap acts in a composite manner with the steel core. They both contribute strength. I would think the main two stresses would be bursting and bending. The CF wrap can be oriented at different angles to add bursting strength or to add stiffness. So 2 CF wraps, each with the same fiber and f/r ratio, could have drastically different properties because of differences in fiber orientation. [/QUOTE]
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