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Naturally all this business about stresses and strains is only a means to an end; that is, to enable us to design safer and more effective structures and devices of one kind or another and to understand better how such things work.
That with music loud and long, I would build that dome in air, That sunny dome! Those caves of ice! And all who heard should see them there, And all should cry. Beware! Beware! S. T. Coleridge, Kubla Khan
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Gordon, J.E. (1978). Designing for safety — or can you really trust strength calculations?. In: Structures or Why things don’t fall down . Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-9074-3_4
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