Why do ships have cicular windows,why not square ones?

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Why do ships have cicular windows,why not square ones?

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Already answered, but just to add to the proceedings…

Sharp corners (specifically internal corners) are stress raisers. They’re basically focal points for stress in material’s. Remove the focal point and the material stress is “spread out better”.

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