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Safety Factor
Entries tagged safety factor.
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Mental model
Constraints, assumptions, and margins
A margin is the deliberate gap you leave between what a design must survive and what you actually believe it will face, sized to the uncertainty in what you believe.
6 min
ConceptSafety factors and uncertainty
A safety factor is the ratio of the load a part is designed to survive to the load it is actually expected to carry, sized deliberately to absorb the variability in materials, manufacturing, loading, and analysis that no calculation can fully eliminate.
7 min