Incorporating environmental impacts in strategic redesign of an engineered system

Journal of Mechanical Design

Volumn 130, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Harper, Steven R ^a   Thurston, Deborah L ^b  

^a JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; DESIGN; ELECTRIC POWER PLANTS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENTS; PLANT LIFE EXTENSION;

DECISION RULE; OPERATIONAL LIFE EXTENSION;

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 44649178295     PISSN: 10500472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2829858     Document Type: Article

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