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Definition of Factor of safety
1. Noun. The ratio of the breaking stress of a structure to the estimated maximum stress in ordinary use.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Factor Of Safety
Literary usage of Factor of safety
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handbook of Building Construction: Data for Architects, Designing and by George Albert Hool, Nathan Clarke Johnson (1920)
"Factor of Safety and Working Stress.—The stress used in design is called the ...
It is obtained by dividing the ultimate stress by the factor of safety. ..."
2. Report of the Annual Meeting (1895)
"Lloyd's Committee add £ inch, and the Hamburg rules allow a factor of safety 5-0,
reduced to 4-7 when the longitudinal seams are drilled and double riveted. ..."
3. Steam, Its Generation and Use by Babcock & Wilcox Company, Steven C. Stultz, John B. Litto (1913)
"As opposed to such indeterminate factors of safety, in the Babcock & Wilcox
boiler, when the factor of safety for the drum or drums has been determined, ..."
4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1919)
"THE factor of safety IN THE PULMONARY CIRCULATION. BY JP SIMONDS, MD, CHICAGO,
ILLINOIS. (From the Department of Pathology of Northwestern University ..."
5. The Newer Knowledge of Nutrition: The Use of Food for the Preservation of by Elmer Verner McCollum (1922)
"The mother is to no small degree, however, a factor of safety for the young.
It should be remembered that the young rat cannot grow at all when after ..."
6. Proceedings by American Society of Civil Engineers (1904)
"Wellington proposed the almost universal introduction of a factor of safety of
6, and it is introduced in the formula given by Mr. Schneider. ..."
7. Transactions by European Orthodontic Society, Lina Oswald, Northern Ohio Dental Society, Ossory Archaeological Society, Wentworth Historical Society, Society of Automobile Engineers (1910)
"As to a minor point, that of the factor of safety, Mr. Frazer thinks that it
would be well if we could double the present factor of safety. ..."
8. Preventive medicine and hygiene by Milton Joseph Rosenau (1917)
"Factor of Safety.—Bernard and Mantoux * have shown that the lungs are capable
... The factor of safety which Melzer ' has so well described as belonging to ..."
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