Design Catalogs: A Systematic Approach to Design and Value Flexibility in Engineering Systems

This paper proposes design catalogs as an efficient systematic process for identifying and evaluating improved designs in engineering systems by exploiting ideas of flexibility. Standard design and evaluation approaches typically do not cope well with a range of possible operating conditions. They o...

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Main Authors: Cardin, Michel-Alexandre (Author), Geltner, David M (Contributor), de Neufville, Richard L (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Urban Studies and Planning (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division (Contributor), Geltner, David (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier, 2017-04-12T20:58:59Z.
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