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To: Abigail Adams
They said the calculations were wrong. The error may have been in one of several stages—design, drafting, etc., I can’t remember exactly. The calculations were not reviewed after the point at which the error occured.

That's gonna hurt.

Speaking as a retired design engineer.... 'those kind of things damage engineering careers'.

Question for any structural engineers: Isn't it SOP to load test any new designs?

26 posted on 01/15/2008 11:58:44 AM PST by Donald Rumsfeld Fan ("Sincerity is everything. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made." Groucho Marx)
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To: Donald Rumsfeld Fan

They don’t know in which stage of design the error occurred. It is hard to believe these calculations aren’t checked and rechecked a few times along the way.


31 posted on 01/15/2008 12:18:19 PM PST by Abigail Adams
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