[ChuckMcM]

This is the way I see it, you get to the design limit, that is 1x the design limit, then you up that by 100% so now you are at 2x the design limit, and then you go 54% more so you are at 2.54x the design limit.

[skosch]

It's 154% of the design load, not 154% more than the design load. So 1.54×.