How do engineers weight-rate support structures?

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Example: An exercise bike that can support 250 lb. Does the engineer find a large enough weight that deforms the bike, then take a fraction of that as the amount it can support?

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actually, in the case of bridges, they build it, test until it breaks, then build an exact copy. just kidding. most cad software can run analysis for you, so they do that now.

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