Even though the thought of dissecting it made Samuel's stomach turn, he played it cool and followed Capri's lead.

"Yesterday I had only 18 fighters," the Qomendan said, his unwavering gaze fixed on a point somewhere in the middle of the low-ceilinged room. "You saw how many mercenaries and Americans were there."

For the plates with finite dimensions, the finite element method is used to obtain the stress distribution and stress concentration around the ovaloid opening.