"Factor of safety" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... working pressure divide the bursting pressure of the weakest place by the factor of safety. The United States Government use a factor of 6 for single riveted and add 20 per cent for double riveted, 871 / 6 145 lbs. the safe working pressure of this particular boiler, if single riveted and 145 20 per ...
— Rough and Tumble Engineering • James H. Maggard
... support from the "centering" below, and the writer has made the arbitrary assumption that the lower half of it is carried by the structure while the upper half is entirely independent of it, and, in making this assumption, he believes he is adding a factor of safety thereto. The area, then, which is assumed to be carried by an underground structure the depth of which is sufficient to allow the lines, V A and J A, to intersect below the surface, is the lower half of A N{1} V E J N A, or its equivalent, A V E J A, plus ...
— Pressure, Resistance, and Stability of Earth • J. C. Meem
... machine-gun which is fixed in the prow, with the marksman immediately behind it, the screw is placed at the rear. The pilot has his seat behind the gunner. The outstanding feature of these machines is the high factor of safety, which attribute has astonished some of the foremost aviation experts ...
— Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War • Frederick A. Talbot |
