On the other hand large factors are sometimes applied to compensate for uncertainties, resulting in overweight designs.
Impact damage can significantly reduce the strength of composite sandwich panels, giving rise to large factors of safety in design.
This follows since some high order error terms in the error expansion (cf. Section 5) are multiplied with (infinitely) large factors, leading to an order reduction for some methods.
But a strong perception about the lack of adaptability in the lab and academic setting, work ethics (perhaps too extreme), and the requisite long hours seem to be large factors.
This power, which at least nominally exceeds that of current CPUs by large factors, results from the relative simplicity of the GPU architectures as compared to CPUs, combined with a large number of parallel processing units on a single chip.
The problems that have been experienced with fatigue cracking in marine structures, and the extreme difficulties associated with inspections of all types of marine structures, ensure that large factors of safety are needed to truly accomplish safe life designs.
