Dive summary:
- With software developed at the the University of Sheffield, engineers will no longer have to reduce the real world from three dimensions to two in order to calculate collapse risks and then determine margins of safety.
- The school, which was where software was developed in 2007 to automate the two-dimensional calculations engineers formerly had to do manually, says it will be much easier for engineers to model real-world geometries.
- Professor Matthew Gilbert,who co-wrote a report published by the Royal Society, says the result should be time and money savings for companies.
From the article:
"The software we have developed means that engineers should in future be able to model real world geometries much more easily than before, obviating the need to idealise a complex 3D problem as a much simpler 2D problem. ..."
