Thanks for all the responses. I'll try to get to all of your follow up questions.
Yes, this is a fatigue issue. The socket meets our ultimate breaking strength target, however fails to meet our tensile fatigue minimum requirement.
From the manufacturing side, we do not bottom tap, but single...
I have an interesting problem with a design I am working on for a socket termination for a piece of carbon fiber rigging. The sockets are made of 6AL-4V titanium and have a conical shaped seat which matches the end of the carbon fiber. In order to make attachments to this titanium terminal I...
