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Old 17th Jun 2019, 23:47
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To be fair, while CFD has much improved over the years, it's still far short of computational structural analysis - which is very highly evolved.
Sure the timing is pretty lousy, but structural testing to destruction of a completed structure is a bit archaic in this day and age. 300 meter tall skyscrapers are becoming the norm, no testing to destruction of completed structures needed. If one of those ever structurally fails, the death toll would be massive.
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