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A complex structure can be designed either by a strict calculation or by good fortune, or by implementing a traditional project. When manual methods of design were common, the strict calculation used to be hardly possible. The good fortune is not a thing to rely upon, it seems. So one used to adopt traditional approaches the reliability of which had been tried by a long lasting experience. But now the situation is quite different.
“... at a general assembly of members of the British Royal Society of Naval Engineers, when a report regarding newly built Majestic naval ships was discussed, presented by Sir W. White who was a chief naval architect at the time, Admiral Lord Charles Beresford said: “We will drown on those ships, and Sir W. White will then explain why we have done so”.
A.N. Krylov
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Perelmuter, A.V., Slivker, V.I. (2003). Estimating and Interpreting Results. In: Numerical Structural Analysis. Foundations of Engineering Mechanics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-36500-6_6
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