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Interesting steel article from 1971
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Interesting steel article from 1971

RE: Interesting steel article from 1971

Nice.  Love it.

I especially liked this quote:

No one need feel guilty of using simple solutions when the computer can make them extremely complicated.

Anyone can plug a false assumption into an incorrect formula and, in a flash, arrive at a ridiculous answer, inaccurate to ten decimal places. (It has never been clear to how many places an inaccurate answer must be carried to make it accurate.)

RE: Interesting steel article from 1971

Great article of the past that is now more important than perhaps at it's time!

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RE: Interesting steel article from 1971

This issue is my #1 soapbox issue at the office.

RE: Interesting steel article from 1971

Yes, that's the way it was and still is today.   Lately checked the output from a FEM program for gravity loads only.   Found the output had significant forces in two horizontal directions.  The building had already been built.  All I wanted to find out was how heavy the building was!

Another engineer that's one of my heros:  Milo Ketchum.  Check him out at:  http://www.ketchum.org/milo/index.html

Many (almost all) of his thoughts are still poignant.

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