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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Johnston-Lynch, Katharina, Whitfield, Ian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1065-0395 and Evans, Dorothy;
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