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Analyses for Durability and System Design Lifetime: A Multidisciplinary Approach...
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Analyses for Durability and System Design Lifetime: A Multidisciplinary Approach...
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by Joseph H. Saleh
Sales Rank : 2185713
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Hardcover: 216 pages
Publisher: Cambridge University Press December 10, 2007
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0521867894
ISBN-13: 978-0521867894
Product Dimensions:
10.1 x 6.9 x 0.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
Product Description
An issue in engineering design is a system's design lifetime. Economists study durability choice problems for consumer goods but seldom address lifetime problem(s) of complex engineering systems. The issues for engineering systems are complex and multidisciplinary and require an understanding of the 'technicalities of durability' and the economic implications of the marginal cost of durability and value maximization. Commonly the design lifetime for an infrastructure is set between 30 and 70 years. Satellite lifetimes are also assigned arbitrarily or with limited analysis. This book provides a systemic qualitative and quantitative approach to these problems addressing, first, the technicality of durability, second, the marginal cost of durability, and third, the durability choice problem for complex engineering systems with network externalities (competition and market uncertainty) and obsolescence effects (technology evolution). Since the analyses are system-specific, a satellite example is used to illustrate the essence and provide a quantitative application of said analyses.
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Book Description
This book explores system design lifetime problems addressing the technicality of durability, the marginal cost of durability, and the durability choice problem for complex systems with network externalities and obsolescence. It adresses the tension between the design lifetimes of complex systems and the shortening time scales associated with obsolescence.
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