translate English to French: The model was highly refined, with super-elements and 320 000 degrees of freedom, and an iterative process enabled joint cracks in the areas under stress to be factored in by successively reducing the elements' modulus of elasticity to a very low value.
Il n'empêche que l'interprétation des résultats reste délicate et que le bon sens et l'art de l'ingénieur continuent à primer en la matière.