22. If state law requires an engineer to use a material with an minimum advertis

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22. If state law requires an engineer to use a material with an minimum advertised yield stress of 500 ppsi, and he chooses to use a material with an advertised yield stress of 1000 ppsi, the engineer has applied a of 2 on materials. A. risk factor B. building code C. factor of safety D. capability factor 23. The name of a set of Environmentalist principles issued in the 1990s A. NSPE B. CERES C. OSHA D. Land Ethic The ability of people to live the kinds of lives they value. based approach to risk focuses on the effects of risks and disasters on the A. engineering ?.capabilities C.regulatory agency D.finance 25 All organizations have an organizational are held by employees and the overall "way things are done here. This includes the values and beliefs that A. code of ethics B. schema C.culture D. philosophy Thereport claims that there are three types of organizations that an engineer might work for A. Challenger C. Boisjoly D. OSHA B. Hitachi #26? Which of these is NOT one of the three organization types from the report mentioned in A. finance-oriented cnv B. consumer-oriented In order to more readily predict a failure mode, engineers might construct a A. fault tree "Going over your supervisor's head" and reporting an issue to senior administrators would be an analysis. 28. C. risk tree D. capability tree B. event tree 29 whistleblowing example of A. anonymous The Love Canal was: ?.internal D.open B. external A. a heavily polluted waterway used as a honeymoon location for newlyweds B. an abandoned canal which was used as a dump site for several decades C. a canal which could not host life due to large amounts of toxic pollutants in the water D. all of the above 30

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22. c) factor of safety

Factors of safety is defined as the load carrying capability of a structure beyond the actual loads. Fundamentally, the factor of safety is how much robust the structure is than it needs to be for an intended load. Factor of safety can also be defined as the factor which is deliberated in designing any structure so that the value of stresses that may developed in any structure all through its service life does not surpass the design strength.

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