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Who needs such analysis for this? Just make it good and strong and you will be fine. Besides, My philosophy is that if it doesn't look like it might break then it won't. Also, even with stress analysis and exact figures for the computer will still not help anyone out. There is always the fluke accident and though I will agree that stress analysis is good for long-term projects like NASA, it is not that useful for a six-week project like FIRST. Unless you are already an expert in which case go ahead.