Healing and Hypnotherapy Volume 2, Special Mega Annual Issue, 15 June 2018 | Page 54

The additional safety factor is to be given, to cater, for any
eventuality, to make it completely safe.
The main focus being that, the structure should not fail under any
known conditions of use.
 When failure takes place, we know the
‘stress’ was higher than its designed capability, indicating that the
external loading (which generated the ‘stress’) was higher than
what the material was designed for/could bear.
 When an analysis
of failure is done, it is found that the failure takes place due to one
or more of the following reasons:
• Circumstances under which the component/member is
required to function were not determined correctly, or
• The component was made to function beyond its designed
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