Use dataclasses where possible

[Krande]

Move to using dataclasses wherever possible to improve general readability of classes

[Krande]

Note to self.

Dataclasses + inheritance is not ideal since you loose control of re-ordering of positional arguments for subclasses. I.e. the primary data for Beam , Plate etc. classes would have to only rely on keyword arguments, which does not appear to be ergonomically appealing

[Krande]

Having seen the limitations of kwarg ordering of inherited subclasses when using dataclasses, this is considered (at the time of writing) not applicable