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Generalizing the safety factor approach

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  • Clausen, Jonas
  • Hansson, Sven Ove
  • Nilsson, Fred

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Safety factors (uncertainty factors) are used to avoid failure in a wide variety of practices and disciplines, in particular engineering design and toxicology. Although these two areas have similar problems in their use of safety factors, there are no signs of previous communication between the two disciplines.

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  • Clausen, Jonas & Hansson, Sven Ove & Nilsson, Fred, 2006. "Generalizing the safety factor approach," Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Elsevier, vol. 91(8), pages 964-973.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:reensy:v:91:y:2006:i:8:p:964-973
    DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2005.09.002
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