Ancient Web: The Sleipner A Disaster Page Is a 29-Line

Douglas Arnold's compact Sleipner A page explains how a 1991 offshore-platform failure traced back to a finite-element analysis error that underestimated critical shear stresses by 47 percent.

Original site: https://www-users.cse.umn.edu/~arnold/disasters/sleipner.html

Full Switchboard article: https://switchboardtechservices.com/articles/ancient-web-the-sleipner-a-disaster-page-is-a-29-line-warning-about-bad-numerics/

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