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Originally Posted by RG m3
Failures have happened, that's well known, maybe not with all brands, I don't know. It's not that the velocity stacks themselves break, it's that they detach from the pIenum bottom. I imagine Salman is very well connected in this industry and might know more than we do. See this thread:
https://www.m3post.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2185627
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I work on spacecraft composite structures for a living. So far I’ve only been able to find velocity stack and CF-to-aluminum ring (secures the velocity stack to the ITB) bonded joint failures on the Eventuri CF plenum design. It’s not surprising that the Eventuri velocity stacks have separated from the plenum due to its poorly designed bonded joint that’s subjected to primary adhesive peel loading (weakest load path for an adhesively bonded joint). Using a large blob of adhesive to create a generous radius adds zero peel strength. The metallic ring that secures to the ITB is a single lap shear joint with practically zero bond area. The CF plenum is subjected to structure-borne random vibration from the engine rpm, thermally-induced loads due to CTE mismatch as well as secondary inertial and acoustic loadings. I doubt they performed any type of dynamic analysis to predict loads and then used the predicted loads in structural analyses to show their design can withstand its structural loading environments.