Matt/Meribeth said:

All these
dimensions are interelated, and making sure that things fail
in the right order is part of a good engineering analysis as well.

Ahem!!
A perfectly engineered structure shoul fail all at the same time - totally
disintegrating to molecular levels. At least, that's how Herreshoff saw it.

;-)

Steve
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