Conservatism but not over-designing

“Why do you consider the safety factor of 1.5 instead of 1.3, or why deliberately increase the pole size to CHS114.3 if CHS88.9 would work? – It is for conservatism.” Sometimes we like to use of the word “conservative” to imply that we’re assigning values that we know to be too large (or too small, […]

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