Hence, the sustainable development of our Nation's roadway system requires quantitative means to link infrastructure performance to lifecycle energy use and greenhouse gas emissions.
Cardin, M.-A., Kolfschoten, G. L., de Neufville, R., Frey, D. D., de Weck, O. L., Geltner, D. M., 2013, "Empirical Evaluation of Procedures to Generate Flexibility in Engineering Systems and Improve Lifecycle Performance", Research in Engineering Design 24:247-245.
Based on automatically identified trade-off values for TLI, lean rules are extracted to improve the performance of PSS lifecycle phases.
Another novelty is in how the concept of flexibility is exploited to deal with uncertainty and improve expected lifecycle performance (e.g. cost).
In order to design marine renewable energy mooring systems which are both economical and durable it is necessary to establish the lifecycle performance of individual components.
The proposed framework could be used to rapidly evaluate whether a damaged building remains structurally safe to occupy after a seismic event and can be implemented as a subroutine in community resilience evaluation or building lifecycle performance assessment and optimization.
This study explores the concepts of real options and flexibility analysis as an approach to address uncertain demand growth in mobility on-demand (MoD) vehicle-sharing systems, with the goal of improving expected lifecycle performance.
This could diminish experimental efforts and enable accurate prediction of scaffold performance throughout its lifecycle.
It addresses all aspects of implementing environmental management systems, including auditing, labeling, performance evaluation and lifecycle assessment.
This paper presents a new approach to control system design in order to look beyond end-of-lifecycle performance, and consider control system structure, flexibility, and extensibility.
Lifecycle building performance assessment (LBPA) practices are being increasingly applied on existing buildings to ensure that performance requirements are fulfilled during building service-life.
