Q&A: What happens if engineers mess up their calculations when designing structures?

Question by : What happens if engineers mess up their calculations when designing structures?

I know that physics can be really tricky and its easy to make a mistake, especially the complicated kind of physics engineers do.

How do you prevent mistakes from happening?

Best answer:

Answer by Alex
well there is bound to be mistakes, so they ALWAYS create some failsafe that if they forgot something, something else can make up for that.

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