factor of safety

There are several ways to compare the factor of safety for structures.

Specifically, we are talking about one of the factors of safety.

This is because production auto parts have a much larger factor of safety, and often more systematic quality control.

Light and sound were the factors of safety.

The rod was designed with a factor of safety 6.1 for tensile stress.

Such an assumption improves accuracy in factor of safety calculations.

But obviously there is a big factor of safety in the apparatus, or we would never have been able to fly the city at all."

But the new screens had been figured with a factor of safety of five, and they stood up.

But, speaking of emergencies, the power plant should really have a very large factor of safety.

A Factor of safety is a design criteria that an engineered component or structure must achieve.

A factor of safety of 1.5 is acceptably safe in practice.

Buildings commonly use a factor of safety of 2.0 for each structural member.

"These recorders go to five billion and have a factor of safety of ten.

It may provide information about the factor of safety or about the critical acceleration required to cause collapse.

We had a factor of safety of three.

The use of a factor of safety does not imply that an item, structure, or design is "safe".

However if the tree is planted at the top of the slope this could reduce the factor of safety by 10%.

Therefore these formulars have a factor of safety of 2 above actual stresses.

Back analysis serves for calculation of a reinforcement load with a given required factor of safety.

The applied loads have any factors, including factors of safety applied.

Often a separate factor of safety is applied to the yield strength and to the ultimate strength.

The factor of safety is used to calculate a maximum allowable stress:

Such a ship, using helium gas, would show a higher factor of safety than any other means of transportation at our disposal.

"Just as an added factor of safety, you'd better put this on, Clio - those emergency suits aren't good for much in a battle.

The factor of safety for a shear surface is determined using a procedure of slices.