nolanhoff

nolanhoff t1_j1hs956 wrote

Because it’s aluminum it will fail at some point. It isn’t ferrous, so it doesn’t have an endurance strength( Infinite life). How many stress cycles it can endure, I can’t tell you. It all depends on how they designed it.

Pressure vessels are usually required to have a factor of safety of about 6, but I’m not sure if something like this would need to adhere to that. If it did have that high factor of safety, it would last quite a long time.

For a reference point, it could be designed for 10,000 or 100,000 or 1,000,000 cycles. You’d have to ask the engineers who designed it that question.

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