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Also, might work for a mechanical arm the size of an arm, but not for the size of the Eiffel tower.

• sashank_1509 2y ago
  Eiffel Tower was built before FEM existed. In fact I doubt they even did FEM like calculations
  • navane 2y ago
    I ment a mechanical arm the size of the eifel tower. You don't want to iterate physical products at that size.
    • kragen 2y ago
      Going by Boeing vs. SpaceX, iteration seems to be the most effective approach to building robotic physical products the size of the Eiffel Tower.
      • eru 2y ago
        I'm sure they are doing plenty of calculations beforehand, too.
        • kragen 2y ago
          Unquestionably! Using FEM.
  • mitthrowaway2 2y ago
    This is true, although it was notable as an early application of Euler-Bernoulli beam theory in structural engineering, which helped to prove the usefulness of that method.