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If you are not aware of the loads and forces involved, you drew them up, not "redesigned" them. That's cool in itself, but it's not the same thing. If you don't get what I mean, Eng (or any engineer) will be able to explain the difference better than me
Grow that tree in the ABSCENCE of wind and you'll soon see how it adapts and how your premise is misguided to the point of being ignorant and presumptuous
I'm sorry but what is wind? A gentle breeze or a tornado? I haven't seen too many trees engineered to withstand a tornado. Same thing applies to engineering anything. Without known info you CAN'T engineer a thing.WIthout building it FIRST you have NO idea what the failure point is so therefore you CAN'T engineer it. IMO engineering anything is nothing more than voodoo science that becomes REAL once tested. BTW ,just because something is engineered does not mean it will work.
According to Grim, engineers nowdays are taught to copy and modify rather than design... *shrug*Fab, to come up with a value of 5-600 you first need to KNOW what 100 is guessing what 100 is leaves you "drawing it up" not designing it :P
Not in MY world.Lumber has been extensively tested to know nominal values that are used to do the engineering.It is still spec'd at 5-6 times it's design needs.So YES they do know what 5-600% of 1 is.
Any wind, breeze or otherwise. Try it and you'll know what I KNOW. While your at it get your head around the calculations it takes to actually design at the level I'm referring and then you wont think it so irrelevant... coz it's not. just because you don't understand it or don't have the capacity to understand it, but have the ability to speak, does not make your explanation or the excuses for not understanding it valid sorry.