"conceptual alternative" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when referring to something that is a conceptually different version of something else, or an idea that is distinct from its original version. For example, "Researchers explored the conceptual alternative of using air-powered engines instead of fuel-based engines."
The proposal is still just a "conceptual" alternative to Pier A, Mr. Boch said.
A conceptual alternative to the global safety factor is explored, where the load on the slab is step-wise increased up to the point where a predefined deflection criterion is reached.
Such a fundamental change in safety assurance concepts requires either a choice for an almost perfect reliable engineering design, implementation and operational strategy or a conceptual alternative for train control, applying a human centred design approach.
This model can be seen as a coherent way of reconciling the Whiteheadian and the Thomistic accounts, while also providing a conceptual alternative to anthropomorphic images of God as Loving Father, Cosmic Monarch, Creator and Intervener, and so forth.
A conceptual alternative to the logistic problem is so-called near patient testing point of care centres at clinics.
This necessitates the need for fuzzy decision models for selecting the best conceptual design among a set of alternatives.
A second corpus post-Hagerstrand is concerned with his conceptual model – inconsistencies between observed reality and that model; conceptual alternatives and/or extensions of Hagerstrand's conceptual model, such as the market and infrastructure perspective and technological diffusion.
Objections to evolution: conceptual difficulties, alternative interpretations.
Objections to evolution: conceptual difficulties, alternative interpretations. .
Furthermore, it has become an imperative to quantitatively and automatically analyze the elicited customer requirements so as to simplify and optimize the subsequent product conceptualization and selection of conceptual design alternatives.
Evaluating conceptual design alternatives in a new product development (NPD) environment has been one of the most critical issues for many companies which try to survive in the fast-growing world markets.
