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Re: Whitley test "produced a failure at 98% of the design load" is that good?
Very well summarized..
Interesting on the Fortran. before I was immersed in Nastran in late sixties - I co-op'ed at NASA and Lockheed. At NASA I programmed the LoW Orbital Degradation model, first on an IBM 620, then 7090 (I couldn't imagine a Bigger Machine at the time) and was introduced to Bessel and Hankel Functions applied to spheres or oblate Spheroids for first time.
Even when building 'real' airframe models with NASTRAN, using RODS as beams, and shear panels (PLATES way too stiff), getting either static or dynamic loads wasn't in the application at the time..
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