For a technician all is flexible, likewise an 300mm HEB, and a lot of words cannot replace a figure.
If somebody say: my motor has a lot of power... how many hp?... it is very powerfull. Ah! ... the chassis is flexible... OK it is...how many... it is flexible
Perhaps MMC has the answer, old people made studies and used formulas for more one century. When I began working we don't use computer, calculations were made "manualy" with formula and a slide rule. When Eiffel made the Paris tower (1889), calculations have been made, this was not guesstimates or a "wet finger estimate". For manualy calculation you have to do some approximations, a gusset could be ignored, it is the experience and the art of the science to know the elements you can ignore to simplify the calculations. With computer and its calculation power you are able to take all the elements into account and get more precision, but results are not too far for a manualy calculation...boths use the same principles and formulas.
Last edited by CBY; 23/10/23 08:22 AM.
