Perspectives in design: The Deacon's Masterpiece and the hundred-year aircraft, spacecraft, and other complex engineering systems

Journal of Mechanical Design

Volumn 127, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 845-850

  Saleh, Joseph H ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Product durability; Robustness; System design lifetime; System flexibility; Time to obsolescence

Indexed keywords

EID: 24344436015     PISSN: 10500472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.1886815     Document Type: Note

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