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Journal articles on the topic "Sustainable material selection"

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Gharehbaghi, Koorosh, and Maged Georgy. "Sustainable Construction by Means of Improved Material Selection Process." Academic Research Community publication 3, no. 1 (February 7, 2019): 85. http://dx.doi.org/10.21625/archive.v3i1.433.

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Whilst sustainable construction relates to both a building’s structure and the use of proper life cycle processes, the selection of the most appropriate material/s is deemed a considerable undertaking. Throughout a building’s lifecycle that extends from design, construction, operation, maintenance, renovation, until demolition, the selection of sustainable material/s is a particularly crucial task for the development and establishment of such structures. Traditionally, there are three main materials for general construction: (1) Steel, (2) Concrete and (3) Timber. These materials not only influence the function within the structure, but also affect the operation cost and energy usage. Operation cost reduction and energy savings are typically elements of the sustainable construction sphere. However, in developing countries, there is a variety of highly critical factors, which can impact material selection as well as the long-term sustainability of the structure, including: Fire Performance, Environmental Impact, Structural Performance (strength and durability), and Functioning Capabilities. Accordingly, this paper will first compare the sustainability of these three key materials and then converse with appropriate processes for material selection. Attention will be given to the sustainable construction recompense associated with the different material selection factors. Doing so ensures a more sustainable built environment by means of an improved material selection process.
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Stoffels, Pascal, Jerome Kaspar, Dirk Baehre, and Michael Vielhaber. "Holistic Material Selection Approach for More Sustainable Products." Procedia Manufacturing 8 (2017): 401–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.promfg.2017.02.051.

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Ahmed, Mohd, M. N. Qureshi, Javed Mallick, and Nabil Ben Kahla. "Selection of Sustainable Supplementary Concrete Materials Using OSM-AHP-TOPSIS Approach." Advances in Materials Science and Engineering 2019 (May 29, 2019): 1–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/2850480.

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Due to resource scarcity, environmental impact, and socioeconomic constraints, sustainable criteria should be given prime importance in the construction industry. The sustainability in concrete can be attained using supplementary materials. The numbers of supplementary concrete materials (SCMs) are available ranging from industries by-products, agro-products, waste product, and newly engineered materials. The selection of the supplementary materials is challenging due to the wide range of environmental, technical, and economic constraints. The paper proposes a decision support framework considering technical, environmental, social, and economic sustainability criteria for ranking of concrete supplementary material. The decision framework includes the optimal scoring method- (OSM-) based shortlisting of supplementary materials, with technical and cost characteristics, and subsequent prioritizing material according to sustainable potentiality order using AHP-TOPSIS. The stability of the ranking of sustainable concrete supplementary materials has been verified using sensitivity analysis. The present study develops decision support framework by employing technical characteristics of the most technically sound material used as concrete material. The technical, environmental, and socioeconomic sustainable performance indicators have considered its selection to obtain much needed sustainability and to boost the eco-friendly environment. From the proposed MCDM framework, it is found that engineered siliceous materials and agriculture-based industrial waste products as SCMs will prove to be most sustainable in the construction industry.
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Papile, Flavia, Barbara Del Curto, and Andrea Coccia. "MATERIAL SELECTION AS COOPERATIVE PROCESS: A FRAMEWORK PROPOSAL FOR A CHANGING ECONOMY." Proceedings of the Design Society 1 (July 27, 2021): 2017–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/pds.2021.463.

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AbstractIn current era of Anthropocene, human activities and their consequences on Earth ecosystems are under the lens of scientific research. Researchers in every field of study are trying to find alternatives to promote sustainable development. So it is for design, where researchers exploiting the problem-framing and problem-solving nature of the design discipline itself, trying to find new methodologies and tools to enhance sustainable development.One of the most important tasks in the design for a sustainable production is focused on material selection. In this paper, authors will present a reflection upon material selection methods and an overview of existing material repositories. Traditionally, material selection is usually attributed to designers or technical professionals but nowadays information concurring in materials selection became a complex task to manage. Therefore, authors propose a case study concerning information management upon materials and their selection presented in a new possible approach: material selection as a collaborative task between several departments of an industrial company, to promote an aware information management activity upon materials.
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Mahmoudkelaye, Samira, Katayoon Taghizade Azari, Mitra Pourvaziri, and Elnaz Asadian. "Sustainable material selection for building enclosure through ANP method." Case Studies in Construction Materials 9 (December 2018): e00200. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cscm.2018.e00200.

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Mathiyazhagan, Kaliyan, A. Gnanavelbabu, and B. Lokesh Prabhuraj. "A sustainable assessment model for material selection in construction industries perspective using hybrid MCDM approaches." Journal of Advances in Management Research 16, no. 2 (April 23, 2019): 234–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jamr-09-2018-0085.

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Purpose Urbanization and globalization in India have led to the depletion of resources and degradation of the environment to meet the demands. Because of these issues, researchers and practitioners have begun to study various strategies to reduce the level consumption of resources to utilize it for present and future needs. In pursuit of finding solutions to the problems, sustainable building construction is found as the best key to avoid depletion of resources. Sustainable material selection is found as a vital strategy in construction. The paper aims to discuss this issue. Design/methodology/approach A three-phase methodology is proposed for framing the assessment model for construction industries to select materials for construction. In the first phase, a total of 23 sub-criteria of triple bottom line (TBL) and four brick materials as alternatives were identified. The second phase finds the weights and ranks of criteria and sub-criteria using the best worst methodology (BWM) the third phase involves ranking of materials concerning sub-criteria weights determined in phase II using Fuzzy Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS). Findings The objective of study is fixed to identify the criteria list for the selection of material in construction industries from the literature review especially for Indian construction industries; to rank the criteria for selection of materials with the help of the BWM approach; and to prioritize the identified materials in the view of sustainability with the help of Fuzzy TOPSIS in construction industries perspective. This study analyzed and choosing right sustainable materials by the three pillars of sustainability which are the environment, economic and social, also called TBL, for Indian construction companies by framing a sustainable material assessment model. Originality/value The results of this study facilitate to frame an assessment model for evaluating and selecting sustainable building materials.
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Pham, Anh-Duc, Quang Trung Nguyen, Duc Long Luong, and Quynh Chau Truong. "The Development of a Decision Support Model for Eco-Friendly Material Selection in Vietnam." Sustainability 12, no. 7 (April 1, 2020): 2769. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12072769.

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In recent years, the awareness of sustainable construction has increasingly risen in countries around the world, with the main goal being to avoid depleting energy resources and raw materials and to greatly reduce carbon emissions. Therefore, the selection of eco-friendly building materials becomes a difficult task and choosing the best construction strategy is a complicated process. Most of the studies of the building material selection often focus on optimizing material-related green building scores with budget constraints based on the environmental impacts of those materials. However, these studies do not pay attention to the impact of sustainable materials on two important aspects of a project: The initial investment cost and the total labor-working days. Hence, this study developed a model that optimizes a material mix for buildings considering the building budget, total labor-working days, and material-related green building scores. A case study in Vietnam was conducted to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed model. This proposed model provides a guidance for decision-makers in selecting approximate materials for buildings toward sustainability.
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Kumar, Sachin, Anchit Goel, and Gaurav Kumar Singh. "Intricate Analysis of Potential Materials for Sustainable Product Development." European Journal of Sustainable Development 8, no. 4 (October 1, 2019): 114. http://dx.doi.org/10.14207/ejsd.2019.v8n4p114.

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Raw materials are scarce and are exponentially depleting. Material usage and product disposal both lead to improvidence of raw ingredients for products. We use materials for manufacturing new products while simultaneously throwing away used non-biodegradable products which pollute the environment. The world of designing and manufacturing needs to use new material(s) which can be selected using the methodology proposed in the research text. To select the best material for a product, its environmental impact, cost and properties that decide the quality of a product are plotted in a 3 dimensional space. Now the threshold limit of quality defining properties is obtained through experimentation. Cutoff cost is decided through market research and then environmental impact is minimized. The material beyond the cutoff planes is rejected and the best among the remaining materials is selected. The product developed using this method for material selection will contain the negative environmental impact during manufacture, use and expenditure of used products and thus helping sustainable development.Keywords: Sustainability, Life Cycle Analysis, Material selection, Cost optimization, Environmental Repercussion, Mechanical properties
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Xiang, Feng, Zhi Zhang, Ying Zuo, and Fei Tao. "Digital Twin Driven Green Material Optimal-Selection towards Sustainable Manufacturing." Procedia CIRP 81 (2019): 1290–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2019.04.015.

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Stanaszek-Tomal, Elżbieta. "Bacterial Concrete as a Sustainable Building Material?" Sustainability 12, no. 2 (January 17, 2020): 696. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12020696.

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The right selection of building materials plays an important role when designing a building to fall within the definition of sustainable development. One of the most commonly used construction materials is concrete. Its production causes a high energy burden on the environment. Concrete is susceptible to external factors. As a result, cracks occur in the material. Achieving its durability along with the assumptions of sustainable construction means there is a need to use an environmentally friendly and effective technique of alternative crack removal in the damaged material. Bacterial self-healing concrete reduces costs in terms of detection of damage and maintenance of concrete structures, thus ensuring a safe lifetime of the structure. Bacterial concrete can improve its durability. However, it is not currently used on an industrial scale. The high cost of the substrates used means that they are not used on an industrial scale. Many research units try to reduce production costs through various methods; however, bacterial concrete can be an effective response to sustainability.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Sustainable material selection"

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Hald, Saga. "Sustainable Material Selection:Guiding the Multi-Criteria Process to Design for Sustainable Innovation." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Institutionen för maskinteknik, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-18869.

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In the past decades, the world has noticed complex changes in its climate. The resources available now as well as in the future could be said to be analogous to the decreasing circumference of a funnel. The wealthy population with the means to elect what goods they wish to consume are becoming aware of their impact both on nature as well as on the less fortunate people of the planet. As a consequence environmental and human-centered factors are of higher priority than ever before in the decisions made by companies, which in turn will decide the future. This thesis aims to investigate what set of criteria can be seen as most relevant for sustainable material selection at a manufacturing company. To be relevant for the future these design criteria are decided with a base in modern research from the past decade in the field of material selection. The company chosen as a case to study and collaborate with was IKEA Components AB. The research was conducted on-site at the company’s facilities in Älmhult, Småland, as well as at the Blekinge Institute of Technology in Karlskrona, Blekinge. The company vision for the future which IKEA is striving towards is focused on lowering carbon dioxide equivalents, from which a lion share of the emissions is a result of the material they are selecting for their products. Experts within various fields of the chosen company were consulted to gain perspective and knowledge while designing and testing prototypes of a tool to facilitate a sustainable material selection. The metal alloys were analyzed for toxicity based on the percentages of all elements they contained and scored based on chosen sustainability criteria. The plastics were judged on recyclability, renewability, and degradability apart from available numbers for emission factors. After this, the materials were placed in the excel tool which was then tested by engineers and evaluated in semi-structured interviews. Updates were made to make the tool as user-friendly as was possible and new tests were conducted. Overall, the tool was appreciated by the users who tested it and more improvements were planned to finalize the prototype. Results are detailed in the latter part of the report, discussing designs the engineers preferred over others, the current scale of sustainability tools used in the company and how the testers scored the tool. In the discussion, criteria are evaluated based on their multi-criteria compliance with sustainability factors. Drawing conclusions about the subject of sustainability criteria was accomplished by conducting literature studies in material criticality, making use of the methods for sustainable product development taught in the master of science, investigating material toxicity, testing solutions for sustainable material selection at a typical furniture component manufacturing company, receiving feedback from constructors and exploring connections for the selected methods to the principles of sustainability.
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Bradley, Ryan T. "A Framework for Sustainable Material Selection for Multi-Generational Components." UKnowledge, 2015. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/me_etds/61.

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The early stages of a product’s design are a critical time for decisions that impact the entire life-cycle cost. Product designers have mastered the first generation; however, they currently do not have the ability to know the impact of their decisions on the multi-generational view. This thesis aims at closing the gap between total life-cycle information and the traditional design process in order to harbor sustainable value creation among all stakeholders involved. A framework is presented that uses a combination of a life-cycle costing methodology and an evolutionary algorithm in order to achieve a sustainability assessment for a true multi-generational component. An illustration of the implementation of the framework shows the value to current engineering scenarios. A foundation is also laid for the overall future vision of this work to utilize proper databases and existing design tools to evaluate the overall sustainability and life-cycle cost of multi-generational components.
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Deakin, Rose. "Facilitating sustainable material selection in the industrial design of mass-manufactured products." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2014. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/14857.

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Sustainable materials are prevalent within design, but industrial design lacks mass-manufactured product examples. This research explores this gap in knowledge to understand the influences affecting the selection of sustainable materials and how UK industrial designers could be better supported. A comprehensive literature review explores the selection of sustainable materials within the context of industrial design. Existing tools and resources designed to support industrial designers are analysed to understand the support provision and requirements. The research approach explores individual attitudes, and the influences towards and against selecting sustainable materials. Four UK companies were studied to understand how sustainable materials are considered and utilised for mass-manufactured products. Two frameworks were designed to support and facilitate sustainable material selection. The first depicts the overarching support requirements whilst the second presents the considerations and strategies. Both frameworks were evaluated by experts and previous participants. A workshop with designers evaluated the efficacy of the second framework when used as a tool The majority of industrial designers were aware of general issues of sustainability but rarely considered selecting sustainable materials. All four companies had experienced significant changes recently, including increasing resources and internal initiatives towards the use of sustainable materials. The market for sustainable materials is improving, but risks exist, such as fluctuating availability and market instability. A lack of awareness and understanding has meant that, in order to succeed, some companies have designed methods to educate stakeholders whilst designers have requested support to educate clients. Personal interest of the individual is a key driver, creating champions who raise awareness and boost confidence amongst colleagues. There is a need, not only for greater education and support, but also to improve engagement with sustainable material selection amongst industrial designers and others involved in the process.
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Zhang, Yuxin. "A Comprehensive Method for the Selection of Sustainable Materials for Building Construction." Digital WPI, 2012. https://digitalcommons.wpi.edu/etd-theses/618.

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In the design phase of any building industry, appropriate material selection is critical for the entire project. A poor choice of material may affect the quality of the project, lead to high cost during the long term operation and maintenance phases, and even endangering humans and the environment. Since the inception of the United States Green Building Council (USGBC) in 1993, ¡°green¡± buildings have become a hot topic and people have become concerned about how sustainable their buildings are. In order to determine the level of sustainability in buildings, the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) has developed a rating system that has been established now as the common denominator in the industry. However, the LEED rating system simplifies, or even ignores, explicit considerations for Lifecycle Assessment (LCA) in determining the selection of building materials. This lack of explicit consideration for LCA does not permit a full assessment in determining how truly sustainable the chosen materials are. This research analyzes the factors impacting the selection of the green materials and reviews the current standards used in green material. It proposes a more comprehensive rating method for the green material selection illustrating its applicability through a case study analysis based on new WPI Sports and Recreation Center. It is expected that this study would contribute to a better understanding of the sustainable materials selection and can improve help to improving their long term performance in buildings.
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Watson, Natasha. "Developing material selection strategies to improve the embodied impacts of buildings." Thesis, University of Bath, 2016. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.707565.

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The embodied environmental and socioeconomic impacts of building construction are rarely considered within industry. Renewable and certified resources will continue to provide a viable low impact supply chain for construction, yet the use of such low impact building materials (LIBM) remains a small proportion of the current market. Structural engineers should be encouraged to use LIBM and consider the impacts of building construction, and so the research aim was to create an informed and responsible approach for structural engineers to reduce the embodied impacts of their projects. The limited amount of academic literature on the consideration of embodied impacts within construction and the use of LIBM prompted a two-phase research methodology. The first Problem Exploration phase developed a rich understanding of the current context of embodied impacts within construction through an analysis of data gathered from an online questionnaire and semi-structured interviews. The findings identified three key aspects to consider when developing an Embodied Impact Reduction Approach (EIRA); the alignment of the project-life cycle with influence, the limitation of time and costs, and the importance of support and education within the approach created. The second Action phase developed EIRA using the findings and supplementary data gathered from focus groups, which highlighted that EIRA should be flexible so as to be relevant to the breadth of projects that BuroHappold Engineering, who partially sponsored the research, work on. EIRA runs parallel to the RIBA Plan of Work, adapting to the different objectives, level of detail and information available at each project stage. Three components were developed; the Material Design Sheets, Carbon Calculator, and the Option Appraisal Support Technique (tOAST). tOAST was implemented on five projects to test its applicability, which identified that greater understanding of embodied impacts plus their relative importance to each other is required. Another key issue was the availability of appropriate embodied environmental data.
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Mynio, Erika P. "Recycled material selection for affordable and sustainable homes using large scale additive manufacturing." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020. https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/127899.

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Thesis: S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering, May, 2020
Cataloged from the official PDF of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 58-63).
Worldwide estimates indicate nearly 150 million people are homeless, and 1.6 billion lack adequate shelter. One of the biggest barriers of home ownership is cost, which is often driven heavily by the cost of materials required. Plastic waste is also at an all-time high, with over 5 billion tons of plastic on the earth's surface and in its oceans. This waste will take hundreds of years to degrade if not longer and incentives and use for recycled plastic is needed now more than ever. Making lightweight homes using 3D printed recycled polymer materials is proposed as a solution to this problem. Assuming a network of manufacturing sites, a significant number of homes could be produced, raising the issue of material selection and availability. After creating an extensive comparison of potential materials, stressing properties, availability and cost, the best candidate appears to be polyethylene terephthalate (PET). Recycled PET (rPET), is available in volumes comparable to the projected demand for low cost housing. rPET material properties optimize the feasibility, processing, and engineering use qualities of the building material, but further testing is necessary to explore the effect of feedstock processing and additives on the performance of the material. This thesis examines the choice of (rPET) as the best potential material for large scale 3D printing of low-cost homes and presents an experimental setup for confirming this hypothesis.
by Erika P. Mynio.
S.B.
S.B. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering
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Lindahl, Pia. "Approaching Strategic Sustainable Materials Management." Licentiate thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Avdelningen för maskinteknik, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-00556.

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Society’s sustainability challenges relatedto materials management have been an area of concern for policymakers, industry and the public for decades. However, if those challenges are managed in a strategic way, they are not only aproblem, but could also bring in new opportunity for companies and other organizations to improve their competitiveness through developingproduct-service systems that promote sustainable development of society. The overall aim of this thesis is to explore how aframework for strategic sustainable development (FSSD) can support the development and design of sustainable materials management strategies in product innovation. This is achieved by four studies investigating howsustainability considerations are, or could be, integrated in decisions regarding materials selection. The studies are informed by the FSSD, Maxwell’s model for qualitative research design and the design research methodology. The first study is a theoretical discussion which provides a base for the following three exploratory studies. The exploratory studies have, through literature reviews and semi-structured interviews, investigated general sustainabilityconsiderations in companies, made a comparison of the strategic potential of two product improvement strategies and finally studied what considerations that are in focus and what types of solutions that are revealed when companies apply a strategic sustainability perspective to materials management. The studies have shown that decisions regarding materials management often arebased on compliance with legislation and on avoiding substances with characteristics commonly considered problematic (such as toxicity, persistency, etc.), and that decision support regarding how materials could be managed in a sustainable way are lacking. However, the results also include some examples from companies that have successfully developed pro-active strategies towards sustainable materials management. They have approached this through managing materials in closedtechnical loops, enabled material substitution through value chain collaboration and reduced material flows through new and innovative design. Most importantly, they have assessedactions not only regarding their potential to reduce a selection of current socio-ecological impacts but also regarding their potential to link toforthcoming actions towards the full scope of socio-ecological sustainability. Through this approach, they have found several ways by which materials with characteristics that are commonly considered problematic can be. The results highlight the possibility of enabling sustainable materials management practices by using a strategic sustainability perspective in combination with material characteristics knowledge and that a static division of “sustainable” vs. “unsustainable” materials (e.g., through lists of forbidden and allowed materials) is not necessarily serving the purpose in the best way. More subtle considerations are needed. By not applying a strategic sustainability perspective to materials management, organizations risk using “sustainable” materials in unsustainable ways or phasing out “unsustainable” materials that, managed differently, could be helpful for sustainable development. Developing decision support for materials management that integrates this new way of thinking will be the focus of future work.
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Gribbling, Emil. "Biobaserade material i fotbollsbenskydd." Thesis, Mittuniversitetet, Avdelningen för kvalitets- och maskinteknik, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-39670.

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I takt med att fossila resurser begränsas och allmänhetens krav på miljövänliga alternativ ökar, har utvecklingen av biobaserade plaster tagit fart. Nya framsteg i form av fler material, innovativa tillverkningsprocesser och förbättrade egenskaper har gjort att applikationsområdet nu sträcker sig från engångsartiklar med krav på nedbrytbarhet, till tekniska och ingenjörsmässiga applikationer. Syftet med arbetet var att undersöka möjligheterna för företaget Flaxta att använda biobaserade polymerer vid tillverkning av fotbollsbenskydd. Ett klassiskt fotbollsbenskydd består av ett hårdare yttre skal i termoplast tillsammans med en mjukare insida i skumplast. Målet var att identifiera biobaserade polymerer som kan ersätta de fossilbaserade polymerer som idag används vid tillverkning av benskydd för fotbollsspelare. Undersökningen av material utifrån begränsningar på biobaserat innehåll visade att det finns flera biobaserade termoplaster som är identiska med deras konventionella fossilbaserade varianter och direkt kan sättas in i befintliga produktionssystem. Dessa material har goda förutsättningar att ersätta de material som idag används i fotbollsbenskydd. Biobaserade termoplastisk polyuretan (TPU) och polyamid (PA 11) identifierades som de två mest lämpliga termoplasterna för att ersätta befintliga benskyddsmaterial. En övergång till biobaserad TPU skulle kunna minska koldioxidavtrycket vid primärproduktion med 36 % jämfört med fossilbaserad TPU. PA 11 är 100 % biobaserad och släpper ut betydligt mindre koldioxid i atmosfären vid primärproduktion jämfört med flera fossilbaserade polyamider. Undersökningen av biobaserade skummaterial resulterade i att etenvinylacetat (EVA) från företaget Braskem har potentialen att ersätta fossilbaserad EVA och polyuretan (PU) som idag används som mjukt energiabsorberande skummaterial i benskydd på marknaden.  Valet av material tillsammans med benskyddets geometri och design utgör benskyddets skyddande egenskaper. Därför krävs ytterligare tester och analyser av benskydd tillverkade i de biobaserade materialen för att säkerhetsställa att kraven på stötdämpningsförmåga uppnås.
In response to the reduction of fossil resources and increasing public demands for environmentally friendly alternatives, development of bio-based plastics have accelerated. New advancements in the form of more materials, innovative manufacturing processes and improved properties mean that the application area now extends from disposable products with the requirements of biodegradability to products for technical and engineering applications. The purpose of this work was to investigate if the company Flaxta could use bio-based polymers when developing shin guards for football players. A classic shin guard is made out of a thermoplastic outer shell together with a softer inner foam material. The aim was to identify bio-based polymers that could replace fossil-based polymers currently used when developing shin guards.   The study of bio-based materials showed that there are several thermoplastics that are similar to the petrochemical plastics and can be directly inserted into existing production systems. These materials have good potential to be used as environmentally friendly alternatives to the current materials in shin guards. Bio-based thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) and polyamide (PA 11) were identified as the two most suitable thermoplastics to be used in shin guards. A transition to bio-based TPU could reduce the carbon footprint from primary production by 36% compared to fossil based TPU. PA 11 is 100% bio-based and emits significantly less carbon dioxide in the atmosphere during primary production compared to several fossil-based polyamides, therefore does not contribute as much to climate change. The study of bio-based foam materials showed that ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA) from the company Braskem had the potential to replace the fossil based EVA and polyurethane (PU) which is currently used as soft energy absorbing materials in shin guards on the market.   The choice of material together with the geometry and design make up the protective properties of shin guards. Therefore, further tests and analyzes of shin guards made out of the bio-based materials identified as potential replacements are required to ensure that the standards for shock absorptions are met.

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Florez, Laura. "Measuring sustainability perceptions of construction materials." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/34845.

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As more owners seek to develop sustainable buildings, the construction industry is adapting to new requirements in order to meet owner's concerns. Material selection has been identified as an area where designers and contractors can have a significant impact on the sustainable performance of a building. Objective factors such as design considerations and cost constraints can play a role in the selection of materials. However, there may be subjective factors that could also impact the selection of materials. Building upon the potential impact of sustainability perceptions in an optimization model that can be used to help decision makers to select materials, this study defines and tests an instrument to identify and measure such perceptions. The purpose of this dissertation is to develop a conceptual instrument that measures the user-based assessment of product sustainability and validates decision-maker's perceptions in order to evaluate the contribution of subjective characteristics in materials selection. A survey of design and construction students and practitioners is carried out to capture the subjective factors included in the instrument. A Factor Analysis approach is used to refine and validate the measurement instrument and predict decision-makers' sustainability appraisal due to the factors considered.
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Canarslan, Ozgecan. "Evaluation Indicators For Selection Of Sustainable Building Materials." Master's thesis, METU, 2007. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/3/12609144/index.pdf.

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Environmental issues have gained importance due to global environmental threat, such as depletion of energy resources and the impacts of climate change. The building sector is responsible for almost half of the impacts on the environment. Hence, this study focuses on the importance of environmental impacts of building materials. In this regard, firstly, sustainability indicators for building materials were determined and the environmental impacts of selected building materials were studied. Then, the evaluation system BREEAM and the evaluation software BEES were selected and used to evaluate one block of bachelor flats and one of housing units in ODTUKENT, which is located in the Middle East Technical University campus in Ankara, Turkey. Building materials used for the construction of walls, floors and roofs were evaluated according to the indicators accepted by BREEAM and BEES. The results for both units were compared and it was seen that the block of bachelor flats takes lower ratings than the triplex unit for BREEAM and also lower values for BEES. Therefore, the block of bachelor flats has less environmental impact than the triplex unit. While evaluating the materials an exact match for all the materials used in the case buildings could not be found in these tools. Hence, it was not possible to exact results for these materials. In this regard, countries should determine their own evaluation indicators and develop their evaluation systems.
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Books on the topic "Sustainable material selection"

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Anink, David. Handbook of sustainable building: An environmental preference method for selection of materials for use in construction and refurbishment. London: James & James, 1998.

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Federation, Digital Library, ed. Building sustainable collections of free third-party Web resources. Washington, D.C: Digital Library Federation, Council on Library and Information Resources, 2001.

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Bendix, Regina F., Kilian Bizer, and Dorothy Noyes. Toward a Sustainable Interdisciplinarity. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252040894.003.0007.

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The concluding chapter sums up the book's insights with practical recommendations regarding the material requirements, project design, and social process of interdisciplinary research projects. Recommendations to granting organizations and university administrators address funding priorities, resources required, technical assistance, and criteria for assessment. Recommendations to principal investigators address the selection and composition of the research team, the distribution and supervision of responsibilities, and the needs of junior researchers. Additional recommendations for all researchers cover project design and research objectives, the sequencing of activities, the cultivation of interdisciplinary interaction, the capturing of emergent insights, the stages of a project life cycle, and the range of project outputs and outcomes in a larger ecology of scholarly communication.
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Materials for Sustainable Sites: A Complete Guide to the Evaluation, Selection, and Use of Sustainable Construction Materials. Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John, 2008.

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Calkins, Meg. Materials for Sustainable Sites: A Complete Guide to the Evaluation, Selection, and Use of Sustainable Construction Materials. Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John, 2010.

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Montibeller, Gilberto Ristow. O Mito do desenvolvimento sustentável: Meio ambiente e custos sociais no moderno sistema produtor de mercadorias. Brazil Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.31012/978-65-5861-451-7.

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In this book we analyse the sustainability question in the Modern Production System, which today encompasses most of the world economy. We present concepts, theories, indicators, indices, formulas, methods and historical date to examine the evolution and trends of two sustainable development dimensions: socioeconomic and environmental. We focus on the nature-economy nexus and analyse its contradictory process: the more the economics needs nature, the more its cause natural resources depletion and environmental degradation. The huge increase on CO2 emissions in the last three decades – from oil, coal and another non-renewable resources– provides strong evidence to such contradiction. We then analyze the role of material recycle as a solution against both, resources depletion and environmental degradation. Our analysis suggests that the recycle of materials can only contribute to reduce the problem. Moreover, there cycle process of materials depends, on many cases, of public or social subsidies – as financial incentives from the government and domestic material selection. The environment problem transcends borders (as an enterprise, a village, a city, or a country): one can be sustainable, but in fact transfer to other its environmental problem. We adopt the notion of Environmental Space to deal with the sustainability question. We then present and apply the concept of Eco-inequal Exchange to analyse such a question. The environmental movement, which started about fifty years ago, did transform the sustainable development into a global mission. By exposing socio-environmental problems generated by the modern production system itself, this book aims to contribute to a better understanding the limits and possibilities of ours actions as environmentalists.
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Altawell, N. Selection Process of Biomass Materials for the Production of Bio-Fuels and Co-Firing. Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John, 2014.

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Altawell, N. Selection Process of Biomass Materials for the Production of Bio-Fuels and Co-Firing. Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John, 2014.

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Handbook of Sustainable Building: An Environmental Preference Method for Selection of Materials for Use in Construction and Refurbishment. Earthscan Publications Ltd., 1996.

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Levine, Gregory P. A. Zen Sells Zen Things. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190469290.003.0009.

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This chapter explores Japanese Zen material culture and materialism in a contemporary American monastic context. It examines the adaptation of mainstream business operations by The Monastery Store at Zen Mountain Monastery, established by John Daido Loori near Woodstock, New York, in 1980. It provides a visual and critical analysis of The Monastery Store’s mail-order catalogue, website, and brick-and-mortar facility on the monastery grounds, and it contrasts “retail Zen” (i.e., the mass marketing of vaguely Zen-like articles by multinational distribution chains for maximum profit) and “Zen retail” (i.e., the selective sale of sustainably sourced Zen items by nonprofit Zen monasteries to support adherents’ practice). In so doing, this analysis contributes to our understanding of Buddhist economics, practice, ethics, and other Zen matters.
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Book chapters on the topic "Sustainable material selection"

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Schäper, Siegfried. "Sustainability-Optimised Material Selection and Product Design at Audi." In Sustainable Metals Management, 535–62. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4539-5_22.

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Szekeres, Alexander, and Jack Jeswiet. "Defining Sustainability: Critical Factors in Sustainable Material Selection." In Re-engineering Manufacturing for Sustainability, 583–90. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-4451-48-2_95.

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Vinodh, S., and R. Jeya Girubha. "Multiple Criterion Decision Making Application for Sustainable Material Selection." In CIRP Design 2012, 419–25. London: Springer London, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4507-3_40.

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Kajtaz, Mladenko. "Sustainable Design of a Side Door Reinforcing Assembly – Optimisation and Material Selection." In Sustainable Automotive Technologies 2012, 387–92. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24145-1_52.

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Pagone, Emanuele, Michail Papanikolaou, Konstantinos Salonitis, and Mark Jolly. "Metal Casting Energy Efficient Metrics for Material Selection of Automotive Parts." In Sustainable Design and Manufacturing 2018, 290–303. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04290-5_29.

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Rajak, Sonu, Prabhakar Vivek, and Sanjay Kumar Jha. "Application of VIKOR for the Selection of Material for the Green and Sustainable Construction." In Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering, 777–85. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-2696-1_75.

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Jamwal, Anbesh, Rajeev Agrawal, Monica Sharma, and Anil Kumar. "Sustainable Material Selection for Indian Manufacturing Industries: A Hybrid Multi-criteria Decision-Making Approach." In Lecture Notes on Multidisciplinary Industrial Engineering, 31–43. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73495-4_3.

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Dhanalakshmi, C. Sowmya, Manoj Mathew, and P. Madhu. "Biomass Material Selection for Sustainable Environment by the Application of Multi-Objective Optimization on the Basis of Ratio Analysis (MOORA)." In Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering, 345–54. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-9809-8_28.

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Inti, Sundeep, Megha Sharma, and Vivek Tandon. "Social Considerations in Selection of Sustainable Pavement Designs." In Pavement Materials and Associated Geotechnical Aspects of Civil Infrastructures, 83–97. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95759-3_7.

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Prashantha Kumar, T. K. M., Trivene R. Mandlimath, P. Sangeetha, S. K. Revathi, and S. K. Ashok Kumar. "Selective Removal of Nitrate and Phosphate from Wastewater Using Nanoscale Materials." In Sustainable Agriculture Reviews, 199–223. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48009-1_8.

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Conference papers on the topic "Sustainable material selection"

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Yuan, Chris Y., and David A. Dornfeld. "Sustainable Material Selection of Toxic Chemicals in Design and Manufacturing From Human Health Impact Perspective." In ASME 2009 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. ASMEDC, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2009-87145.

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Toxic chemicals used in product design and manufacturing are grave concerns due to their significant impact on human health. Sustainable material selections are needed by industry to reduce the overall impact of toxic chemicals in both design and manufacturing. In this paper, we integrate the human health impact assessment into standard material selection process for developing a sustainable material selection metric for decision support in design and manufacturing. A schematic method is presented for characterizing and benchmarking the human health impact of toxic chemicals. A case study is performed on six toxic chemicals used as solvents in semiconductor manufacturing. Reliability of the schematic benchmarking results is checked and validated by comparing the results with that of conventional Human Toxicity Potential (HTP) method.
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Berrada, Asmae, and Khalid Loudiyi. "Modeling and material selection for gravity storage using FEA method." In 2016 International Renewable and Sustainable Energy Conference (IRSEC). IEEE, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/irsec.2016.7983956.

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Burke, Rebekah D., and Kristen Parrish. "System Engineering Analysis Approach to Building Material Selection for Sustainable Buildings." In Construction Research Congress 2018. Reston, VA: American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/9780784481301.065.

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Alhumaidi, H. M. "An evaluation of existing environmental buildings’ rating systems and suggested sustainable material selection assessment criteria." In SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND PLANNING 2016. Southampton UK: WIT Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.2495/sdp160101.

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Eddy, Douglas, Sundar Krishnamurty, Ian Grosse, Jack Wileden, and Kemper Lewis. "A Robust Surrogate Modeling Approach for Material Selection in Sustainable Design of Products." In ASME 2014 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2014-34280.

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A sustainable solution should holistically optimize all objectives related to the environment and a product’s cost and performance. As such, it should explicitly address material selection, which significantly affects environmental impacts and other objectives of a product design. While Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) provides credible methods to account for environmental impacts, current methods are not efficient enough for use at the early design stages to prune the entire design space without requiring execution of costly LCA analysis for each design scenario. Alternatively, surrogate modeling approaches can facilitate efficient concept selection during early design stages. However, material properties consist of discrete data sets, thus posing a significant challenge in the construction of surrogate models for numerical optimization. In this work, we address the unique challenges of material selection in sustainable product design in some important ways. Salient features of the robust surrogate modeling approach include achieving manageable dimensionality of LCA with a minimal loss of the important information by the consolidation of significant factors into categorized groups, as well as subsequent efficiency enhancement by a streamlined process that avoids the construction of full LCA. This novel approach combines efficiency of use with a mathematically rigorous representation of any pertinent objectives across an entire design space. To this end, we introduce an adapted two stage sampling approach in surrogate model construction based on a feasible approximation of a Latin Hypercube design at the first stage. The development and implementation of the method are illustrated with the aid of an automotive disc brake design, and the results are discussed in the context of robust optimal material selection in early sustainable product design.
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Stratton, Daniel, Daniel Martino, Kemper Lewis, and John Hall. "Selection of Sustainable Wind Turbine Tower Geometry and Material Using Multi-Level Decision Making." In ASME 2014 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2014-35215.

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Wind turbine tower design looks primarily at the structural integrity and durability of the tower. Optimization techniques are sometimes employed to maximize the loading capability while reducing material use and cost. Still, the tower is a dynamic part of a complex wind energy conversion system. During system operation, the tower is excited and sways back and forth. This undesirable movement increases cyclical loading on the tower and drivetrain components. To minimize this motion the tower frequency must be offset from the natural frequency of other components. Hence, it is necessary to look at the relationships that exist between the tower and other wind turbine components, such as the rotor, nacelle, and foundation. In addition, tradeoffs between cost, structural performance, and environmental impact can be examined to guide the designer toward a truly sustainable alternative to fossil fuels. Ultimately, an optimal design technique can be implemented and used to automate tower design. This work will introduce the analytical model and decision-making architecture that can be used to incorporate greater considerations in future studies. In this paper, nine wind turbine tower designs with different materials and geometries are analyzed using Finite Element Analysis (FEA). The optimal tower design is selected using a multi-level variation of the Hypothetical Equivalents and Inequivalents Method (HEIM). Using this analysis, a steel tower with variable thickness has been chosen. The findings reaffirm that steel is a favorable choice for turbine tower construction as it performs well on environmental, performance, and cost objectives. The method proposed in this work can be expanded to examine additional design goals and present a higher fidelity model of the wind turbine tower system in future work.
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Nicholson, Anna L., Elsa A. Olivetti, Jeremy R. Gregory, Frank R. Field, and Randolph E. Kirchain. "End-of-life LCA allocation methods: Open loop recycling impacts on robustness of material selection decisions." In 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technology (ISSST). IEEE, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/issst.2009.5156769.

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Permatasari, Rosyida, and Adhi Muhammad Yusuf. "Material selection for shell and tube heat exchanger using computational fluid dynamics method." In HUMAN-DEDICATED SUSTAINABLE PRODUCT AND PROCESS DESIGN: MATERIALS, RESOURCES, AND ENERGY: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Engineering, Technology, and Industrial Application (ICETIA) 2017. Author(s), 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.5043017.

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Foiasi, Traian, and Mirela Pantazi-Bajenaru. "Innovative and sustainable models in the ecodesign of green-vegan footwear." In The 8th International Conference on Advanced Materials and Systems. INCDTP - Leather and Footwear Research Institute (ICPI), Bucharest, Romania, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.24264/icams-2020.v.1.

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The ECODESIGN concept, which has appeared since the early 1960s, plays a fundamental role in the life cycle of a fashion product, from design, production, service life to recycling. The main vectors of ECODESIGN are guided in several directions: the selection of materials and their impact on production - non-toxic natural fiber materials will be used, recyclable rubber, all obtained with low energy consumption; designing models and making samples - these will be produced from material obtained by recycling used textile fibers with a high durability and low weight; production - the aim is to optimize the production process, replacing toxic auxiliary materials with natural ones (natural rubber, water-based adhesives), identification and elimination of toxic emissions, as well as the use of unconventional, solar and wind energy; packaging - it will be made of recycled vegetable fibers and will be designed in such a way as to protect the product as well as possible without damaging it. All these vectors will contribute to extending the “life” of the product, offering comfort, durability and eco-efficiency.
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Peng, Qingjin, Arash Hosseinpour, Peihua Gu, and Zhun Fan. "Tools for Sustainable Product Design: Review and Expectation." In ASME 2013 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2013-13350.

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Sustainable product design plans the entire life cycle of a product from its raw material selection, conceptual and structural formation, manufacturing processing, and usage to its end-of-life, reuse, and recycle. The product design needs the sustainable knowledge and proper tools. Current computer-aided design systems are insufficient to represent complex relationships of product functions, structures and life cycle options. It is required for design tools to support product life cycle planning with multi-objective optimal solutions. In this paper, our experience in design of a wheelchair is used as an example to discuss the need of design tools. The aim is to define ideal tools for design of sustainable products.
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