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How are packages certified? What are full-scale tests? What are scale-model tests? What is computer analysis? Package Certification Using Computer Analysis Engineering Principles Established by Three Early Scientists Engineering Principles Applied to Ancient Structures Description of Computer Model in Computer Analysis Engineered Structures Built WITHOUT the Use of Computer Analysis Structures Analyzed WITH the Use of Computer Analysis What are examples of severe testing? How do the certification tests compare to real-life accidents? Demonstrating target hardness.	The Pyramids of Giza Large sandstone blocks and limestone facing (mostly missing), Pyramid of Khufu (largest) is as tall as a 50-story building 3200 BC, Egypt Brooklyn Bridge Steel cable and masonry piers, spans 1600 feet late 1869-1883, U.S. Eiffel Tower Exposed iron, 985 feet high late 1887-1889, Paris France Crystal Palace Cast iron and glass, 770,000 square feet 1850, UK Built in Hyde Park London. Disassembled, moved, and reassembled in Southeast London. Destroyed by fire in 1936.
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