Safety Factor
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    To assist in the safety factor people build structures to withstand more weight than the structure will really need to support. For example, if bridges were built to hold just cars, when wind or snowstorms came, the whole bridge would collapse. The safety factor is determined by how much extra load the structure can hold. If a bridge can hold two times its expected load it is said to have a safety factor of two.

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