Suppressor Engineering 101
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Re: Suppressor Engineering 101
Hmmm...when I used the ideal gas laws to do some guesstimating I got politely stomped by the pressure-vessel designers here.
Maybe they left or are sleeping.
Maybe they left or are sleeping.
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Need to be using the ideal guess laws.
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I have to check my math. I did a test 308 with an 16" barrel which gave me a rough chamber and bore volume of 1.46cuin, which is really really rough. Took the 12000psi of a 16" 308, according to a thread here of quickload data. A 2cuin first chamber and a test material of seamless 1.5"OD Grade9 Ti with 80,000psi tensile strength...
By my understanding that was
Pfc = (12000*1.46)/2
Pressure first chamber = 8760
WT = (8760*.75)/(80000*1 - 0.6*8760)
For a pressure-only wall thickness of .088in....... That seems very thick for this application which probably has a generous sized (lower pressure) blast chamber. Shark's Ti 308 tubes are .065 and if I were to call I would think he would suggest it is ok on a 16" barrel. I'm sure I am missing something here. Anyone please feel free to school me, I'll admit none of this is what I would consider a strong point for me.
Mongo, what would you consider is an appropriate design factor of safety for a suppressor?
By my understanding that was
Pfc = (12000*1.46)/2
Pressure first chamber = 8760
WT = (8760*.75)/(80000*1 - 0.6*8760)
For a pressure-only wall thickness of .088in....... That seems very thick for this application which probably has a generous sized (lower pressure) blast chamber. Shark's Ti 308 tubes are .065 and if I were to call I would think he would suggest it is ok on a 16" barrel. I'm sure I am missing something here. Anyone please feel free to school me, I'll admit none of this is what I would consider a strong point for me.
Mongo, what would you consider is an appropriate design factor of safety for a suppressor?
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este wrote:I have to check my math. I did a test 308 with an 16" barrel which gave me a rough chamber and bore volume of 1.46cuin, which is really really rough. Took the 12000psi of a 16" 308, according to a thread here of quickload data. A 2cuin first chamber and a test material of seamless 1.5"OD Grade9 Ti with 80,000psi tensile strength...
By my understanding that was
Pfc = (12000*1.46)/2
Pressure first chamber = 8760
WT = (8760*.75)/(80000*1 - 0.6*8760)
For a pressure-only wall thickness of .088in....... That seems very thick for this application which probably has a generous sized (lower pressure) blast chamber. Shark's Ti 308 tubes are .065 and if I were to call I would think he would suggest it is ok on a 16" barrel. I'm sure I am missing something here. Anyone please feel free to school me, I'll admit none of this is what I would consider a strong point for me.
Mongo, what would you consider is an appropriate design factor of safety for a suppressor?
for using Ideal gas law, wouldn't you want to add the volume from the bore when calculating the volume of the blast chamber? so (12,000*1.46)/(1.46+2)= 5064 ?
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Hmmmm..... I, good sir. Am retarded.
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Well as mentioned before, for pressure vessels they use 3 to 4 which I think is good. I checked your math and your calculations that you have shown are right except as noted in the above post, you did not add the volumes. You first chamber is too small and should be increased in my opinion. Remember QD suppressors have more volume in the first chamber than it looks due to the mount area. Another problem, you are using the strength of the Ti at room temperature. It will degrade in strength even as low as 300F which a bolt action can will reach easily after 5 - 10 shots.este wrote:I have to check my math. I did a test 308 with an 16" barrel which gave me a rough chamber and bore volume of 1.46cuin, which is really really rough. Took the 12000psi of a 16" 308, according to a thread here of quickload data. A 2cuin first chamber and a test material of seamless 1.5"OD Grade9 Ti with 80,000psi tensile strength...
By my understanding that was
Pfc = (12000*1.46)/2
Pressure first chamber = 8760
WT = (8760*.75)/(80000*1 - 0.6*8760)
For a pressure-only wall thickness of .088in....... That seems very thick for this application which probably has a generous sized (lower pressure) blast chamber. Shark's Ti 308 tubes are .065 and if I were to call I would think he would suggest it is ok on a 16" barrel. I'm sure I am missing something here. Anyone please feel free to school me, I'll admit none of this is what I would consider a strong point for me.
Mongo, what would you consider is an appropriate design factor of safety for a suppressor?
Also as I said earlier, the idea gas law is really rough in this case and you are not going into a sealed area so there is fudge in there as well. The 308 short barrel guns can have quiet a bit of powder still burning in the suppressor so shorter the barrel the worse the approximation via ideal gas law. I have not covered this, but using a muzzle brake will increase gas impingement pressure on the walls of the suppress and can cause distortion.
I have been real conservative in the information posted to help keep you guys safe and to save you money since blowing cans for R&D is expensive. I can't remember how many cans AAC destroyed doing research for the military but it was a lot and this is why they are now light yet very strong.
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este wrote:Hmmmm..... I, good sir. Am retarded.
I did the same thing on my thermodynamics test about 2 weeks ago( entropy change from flow between 2 pipes.) at least you aren't getting graded... lucky bastard
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Thanks for getting back to me on that. Yea, I feel like a bonehead for forgetting to add that. I've done stupider things I suppose.Mongo wrote:Well as mentioned before, for pressure vessels they use 3 to 4 which I think is good. I checked your math and your calculations that you have shown are right except as noted in the above post, you did not add the volumes. You first chamber is too small and should be increased in my opinion. Remember QD suppressors have more volume in the first chamber than it looks due to the mount area. Another problem, you are using the strength of the Ti at room temperature. It will degrade in strength even as low as 300F which a bolt action can will reach easily after 5 - 10 shots.
Also as I said earlier, the idea gas law is really rough in this case and you are not going into a sealed area so there is fudge in there as well. The 308 short barrel guns can have quiet a bit of powder still burning in the suppressor so shorter the barrel the worse the approximation via ideal gas law. I have not covered this, but using a muzzle brake will increase gas impingement pressure on the walls of the suppress and can cause distortion.
I have been real conservative in the information posted to help keep you guys safe and to save you money since blowing cans for R&D is expensive. I can't remember how many cans AAC destroyed doing research for the military but it was a lot and this is why they are now light yet very strong.
Do you have any idea how I could find out the strength of a metal at a temperature? I've been looking for that for awhile. I can find tensile and ultimate, but I can't seem to find what temp those are at (I assume room), or how those scale.
As for the sealed area vs a silencer thing. Yea, I've been considering that. Even if you imagined the bullet as perfectly plugging the blast baffle, the issue would become how long does the first chamber need to be able to hold this 3000-8000 psi charge? I assume there is a difference between holding 8000psi for a few milliseconds vs years. This I guess is the basis of the "silencer is not a pressure vessile" argument. I would think this difference would be more than what I would consider fudge factor, it seems VERY significant but I really don't know anything about anything.
I'm absolutely understanding about being conservative and I think that's the right choice. However, if I take the above numbers and double the size of the first chamber to 4cuin, that's a pressure of 3200. Reasonable for sure. That's makes the required wall thickness a guess of .030, very thin, but with a factor of saftey of 3 that's a wall thickness of .090... That's thicker than anyone is using for a 308 can. I would be shocked if the 300-SD which is supposed to handle 300WSM had a wall thickness of .090. So I understand the conservativeness, but it's slightly confusing looking at practical examples.
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este, looking in my strength of materials book, the tensile stress from the hoop stress doesn't increase linearly with relation to the wall thickness for cylinders.
hoop stress= pressure* inner radius^2/(outer radius^2-inner radius^2) * (1+outer radius^2/inner radius^2)
granted it is near linear due to it being thin walled. ----- hoop stress = pressure* average radius/ thickness
the difference in radius is less than 10 percent, so the book says to use the thin walled formula.
I miss 8th grade algebra.
I personally am curious as to how dimensions are determined, so if I find some more info i will put it here asap.
hoop stress= pressure* inner radius^2/(outer radius^2-inner radius^2) * (1+outer radius^2/inner radius^2)
granted it is near linear due to it being thin walled. ----- hoop stress = pressure* average radius/ thickness
the difference in radius is less than 10 percent, so the book says to use the thin walled formula.
I miss 8th grade algebra.
I personally am curious as to how dimensions are determined, so if I find some more info i will put it here asap.
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Unfortunately the only source I know of that has tensile stress degradation with temperature is the ASME Boiler and Pressure vessel Code and the ASME Piping Codes. Both codes have the safety factor built into the numbers listed for allowable tensile strength at each temperature but the safety factor varies between the piping and pressure vessel codes. The piping is less conservative on the safety factor but there is also allowable stresses published when doing design by FEA but this too has restrictions since at temperatures above 700 you must to cyclic analysis. Sorry if this sounds overly complicated and technical but it is meant to be used by engineers and that why we get paid the medium bucks. As for buying the code, it is expensive and is updated ever 2-3 years, you might find a old copy for cheap but usually the old versions are retained in case the vessels of that year are modified in the future.
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you make me want to change my major.Mongo wrote:Sorry if this sounds overly complicated and technical but it is meant to be used by engineers and that why we get paid the medium bucks
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Do it. DO IT! That's what I did.Bowen1911 wrote:you make me want to change my major.Mongo wrote:Sorry if this sounds overly complicated and technical but it is meant to be used by engineers and that why we get paid the medium bucks
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Jimmy_Jr wrote:Do it. DO IT! That's what I did.Bowen1911 wrote:you make me want to change my major.Mongo wrote:Sorry if this sounds overly complicated and technical but it is meant to be used by engineers and that why we get paid the medium bucks
change it to what. I am already Mechanical Engineering.
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My home brewed 308 can is 0.12" thick for the blast chamber.este wrote:
I'm absolutely understanding about being conservative and I think that's the right choice. However, if I take the above numbers and double the size of the first chamber to 4cuin, that's a pressure of 3200. Reasonable for sure. That's makes the required wall thickness a guess of .030, very thin, but with a factor of saftey of 3 that's a wall thickness of .090... That's thicker than anyone is using for a 308 can. I would be shocked if the 300-SD which is supposed to handle 300WSM had a wall thickness of .090. So I understand the conservativeness, but it's slightly confusing looking at practical examples.
The can came out weighing almost exactly what the AAC 300WSM can weighs in at...which is quite heavy.
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Wonderful work, Mongo. Thank you
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a GREAT site outlineing the mechnical properties of just about any alloy of metal... including teperature effects on the modulus.
http://www.knovel.com/web/portal/basic_ ... bookid=754
edit: LOL - I spelled outlining wrong above.
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Quarter inch, 20 TPI?pneumagger wrote:a GREAT site outlineing the mechnical properties of just about any alloy of metal... including teperature effects on the modulus.
http://www.knovel.com/web/portal/basic_ ... bookid=754
edit: LOL - I spelled outlining wrong above.
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Yes, it's the thread pitch for the AR15 pistol grip screw.LavaRed wrote:Quarter inch, 20 TPI?pneumagger wrote:a GREAT site outlineing the mechnical properties of just about any alloy of metal... including teperature effects on the modulus.
http://www.knovel.com/web/portal/basic_ ... bookid=754
edit: LOL - I spelled outlining wrong above.
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thats what i sayLavaRed wrote:Quarter inch, 20 TPI?pneumagger wrote:a GREAT site outlineing the mechnical properties of just about any alloy of metal... including teperature effects on the modulus.
http://www.knovel.com/web/portal/basic_ ... bookid=754
edit: LOL - I spelled outlining wrong above.
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Este, your " ... I did a test 308 " brought a light to my eyes but when I read in detail (guys hate to read, give us pictures)
I realized that it was not about the 308 test that I took yesterday, $25K, 42,000 miles.
On a Magnum, no less, 'Higgins'.
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Thank you for your insightful information.
I realized that it was not about the 308 test that I took yesterday, $25K, 42,000 miles.
On a Magnum, no less, 'Higgins'.
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Thank you for your insightful information.
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This is awesome. Thank you
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Mongo wrote:As for buying the code, it is expensive and is updated ever 2-3 years, you might find a old copy for cheap but usually the old versions are retained in case the vessels of that year are modified in the future.
You would think that these material properties for different alloys would be freely available electronically in this day and age, just like the PDR is available as a drug reference (although this might be highly government subsidized by the FDA and or Drug companies).
http://www.pdr.net/drugpages/concisemonographlist.aspx
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What would be the best way to determine the chamber volume for a 5.56 chamber? just the volume of a unfired case? or guess using calipers inside the chamber?
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This exclamation is most famously attributed to the ancient Greek scholar Archimedes; he reportedly proclaimed "Eureka!" when he stepped into a bath and noticed that the water level rose — he suddenly understood that the volume of water displaced must be equal to the volume of the part of his body he had submerged. This meant that the volume of irregular objects could be measured with precision,