Margin of safety

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Margin of safety

With respect to working capital management, the difference between (1) the amount of long-term financing and (2) the sum of fixed assets and the permanent component of current assets.

Margin of Safety

In business, the amount by which sales or other revenue can fall before it reaches the breakeven point. That is, the margin of safety is how much worse a company can do before it ceases to be profitable. For example, if a company's breakeven point is $200,000 per year, and it is currently producing $300,000, its margin of safety is $100,000. This is also called the safety margin.
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The factor of safety calculated and the maximum sliding depth obtained are shown in Figures 11 and 12, respectively.
Surficial Failure of Expansive Soil Cutting Slope and Its Flexible Support Treatment Technology
The static factor of safety calculated by the proposed method exhibits strong agreement with previous studies.
Upper-Bound Multi-Rigid-Block Solutions for Seismic Performance of Slopes with a Weak Thin Layer
Intentionally designing to a factor of safety much greater than 1 indirectly admits the fault in the deterministic approach while bypassing more meaningful and less arbitrary alternatives.
Probabilistic approach to coal pillar design: performing a probabilistic study rather than a deterministic one is a relatively easy way to quantify the uncertainty in an engineering design
Liu, "On two definitions of the factor of safety commonly used in the finite element slope stability analysis," Computers and Geotechnics, vol.
Slope stability analysis using limit equilibrium method in nonlinear criterion
The distributions of the minimum factor of safety, [FS.sub.min] for each examined rainfall pattern are indicated in Figure 6 to 9, respectively, for advanced, delayed, central, and uniform rainfall pattern.
Influence of rainfall patterns on the instability of slopes
The factor of safety for a particular application can be expected to generally be higher.
Failure modes of flexible metallic membrane couplings
We can notice from the design that the factor of safety considered for the design is too large which results in the wastage of the material and also increases its cost.
Modeling & analysis of connecting rod of four stroke single cylinder engine for optimization of cost & material
Consider the two (2) cover systems with the following configuration parameters summarized in Table 1, subjected to the same level of seismic-induced stresses, but originally designed to the same level of factor of safety. By using Eq.
Geosynthetics in mitigating seismic-induced waste containment cover instability
* Choose an appropriate factor of safety for the tests.
Avoiding product liability claims: how much testing is enough?
The graph shows that the factor of safety decreases with the increase of the pore pressure ratio.
Landslide Susceptibility in Relation to Correlation of Groundwater Development and Ground Condition
In other words, the factor of safety at a point in a soil mass, defined in (6), will vary with the direction.
A New Calculation Method for the Soil Slope Safety Factor
The low effective normal forces would reduce the factor of safety of the ground.
The stability analysis of the Lusi Mud volcano embankment dams using FEM with a special reference to the dam point P10.D
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