1976 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
How Strength can Fail
verfasst von : Peter Polak
Erschienen in: A Background to Engineering Design
Verlag: Macmillan Education UK
Enthalten in: Professional Book Archive
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A major source of confusion for students is the expression ‘safety factor’. It may be of some use in a qualitative sense, indicating which factors in a problem tend towards safety and which towards danger of failure. The trouble starts when attempting to give it a numerical value. In design practice there is no single value for assessing safety margins, as can be seen from the examples below.