What’s your job/area of expertise? I’m sure you listen to all laymen who come in and believe their common sense is greater than your experience/expertise.
I was the lead engineer designing cold extrusion machines which are subjected to larger shock loads than any machine in the world. These machines are used for converting a cold steel rod 2-4” diameter and upto 12” inches long into a semi-finished auto part, in ONE stroke.
If you are in the same plant when these machines are operating, it is the loudest noise you ever heard along with shaking of the ground like if the world was coming to an end. The machine has to produce 8-12 parts per minute so the noise is one after another. To build a welded steel structure for such machines which can stand up to the punishment was nothing one can read in any text books. It was observing what failed and what worked, combined with ingenuity and tons of common sense.