Thread: Tikka hardy rifle

Originally Posted by Daggers_187

There are studies done on this with sustained fire weapons. The verdict is that the heat build up will often cause de-lamination.

Well maybe these do work ok, Im never going to spend that much money on one, it is just the engineer in my questioning things, there was also a comment in the article about it helping with heat dissipation which raised some flags since a carbon epoxy composite is a reasonably good insulator.

It would be interesting to see what the layup is and how they get around any delamination problems when it is cured with the different thermal expansion rates. At a guess I would say that if you can have the finished barrel with the carbon tube being a tight fit over the steel the actual bond between the two may not be all that important because the modulus of steel and carbon is so different