Systems thinking towards holistic, sustainability-oriented assessment and decision-making for lightweighting

Johnston-Lynch, Katharina and Whitfield, Ian and Evans, Dorothy (2024) Systems thinking towards holistic, sustainability-oriented assessment and decision-making for lightweighting. Procedings of the Design Society, 4. pp. 1319-1328. ISSN 2732-527X (https://doi.org/10.1017/pds.2024.134)

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Abstract

Multiple industries have hailed lightweighting promise to reduce the mass of their product at equivalent or improved performance. Lightweighting as a strategy encompasses lightweight end-product desired attributes and through-life processing decisions. Assessment of lightweighting gathers information for decision-making towards the optimization of these strategies. An exploratory study, using systems thinking is conducted, to identify requirements of lightweighting and its assessment in terms of holistically defining its impact on the sustainability of its background system, the Earth.

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Item type:	Article
ID code:	89486
Dates:	Date Event 19 May 2024 Published 31 January 2024 Accepted
Subjects:	Technology > Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) > Engineering design
Department:	Faculty of Engineering > Design, Manufacture and Engineering Management Strategic Research Themes > Advanced Manufacturing and Materials Faculty of Engineering > Design, Manufacture and Engineering Management > National Manufacturing Institute Scotland
Depositing user:	Pure Administrator
Date deposited:	06 Jun 2024 10:55
Last modified:	10 Jul 2024 01:45
URI:	https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/89486

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