PCP Designing

It is not for the faint of heart! The REAL guy you want to converse with is Bob Sterne. I don't think he visits here, but he is on the Guild and GTA. On both sites is a myriad of information about building one from Bob, but you're going to have to do your homework. And a lot of searching, I might add. 

Most PCPs operas near 3,000 PSI, and some as high as 4,500 PSI. Pressure chambers must be near perfect, or the catastrophic results won't be pretty!

Good luck!

you can start studying mathematics so you can handle vectors, integrals and solve differential and complex solutions to solve basic fluid mechanics/ dynamics (compressed air at that pressure behaves like fluid) equations, then look into communicating vessels, Newtonian mechanics, ballistics both internal and external.

explore different gases like Helium, try to steer away from the knock open valve design if you want to be interesting
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people worked the PCP technology out by trial and error, experimantation instead of theory on the paper, if you can draw a PCP in autocad it does not mean it is going to be a good working one.

if you come up with a working close enough mathematical model. come back to me 

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...if you can draw a PCP in autocad it does not mean it is going to be a good working one.

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Sounds like the FX Impact.

Listen to Alan and start by learning all you can from Bob Sterne's posts and various threads on GTA.

There is no substitute for knowledge ...

Good luck on your journey!