Abiding by the rules

摘要

IACS permanent secretary, Richard Leslie, was asked for his thoughts on the relationship between common structural rules and finite element analysis. 'The issue of application software associated with any set of rules is an interesting one as it brings to the fore so many aspects, such as; common and consistent application of the rules, engineering productivity improvements, information management, and relating the initial structural evaluations with follow-up monitoring in service, to name a few,' said Richard Leslie, permanent secretary of the International Association of Classification Societies.