¶ Safety Factor
Index Entry
Safety Factor:
"… The big geodesic domes thus far erected have been way overbuilt by many times their logically desirable two-to-one safety factor.
“While the building business uses safety factors of four, five, or six-to-one, aircraft-building employs only two-to-one or even less because it knows what it is doing. The greater the ignorance in the art, the greater the safety factor that must be applied. And the greater the safety factor, the greater the redundancy and the less the freedom of load distribution.”
