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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An engineer will use math to predict how a structure will behave.
So, so much math.
These days, much of that math is done on a computer.
What is even more amazing is how much of that math was done historically using a slide rule.
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