Development of a method for estimating uncertainty in evaluation of environmental impacts during design

Proceedings of ICED 2007, the 16th International Conference on Engineering Design

Volumn DS 42, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Kota, Srinivas ^a   Chakrabarti, Amaresh ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Approximate LCA; Early phases of design; Life Cycle Assessment; Reasoning about imprecision; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATE LCA; ASSESSMENT METHODS; ESTIMATION RESULTS; IMPACT VALUE; INTERVAL ALGEBRA; LCA METHODS; LEVELS OF ABSTRACTION; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT (LCA); LIFE CYCLE STAGES; PRIOR KNOWLEDGE; PROBABILISTIC THEORY; PRODUCT INFORMATION; PRODUCT STRUCTURE; PRODUCT-LIFE-CYCLE; REASONING ABOUT IMPRECISION; SUPPORTING DESIGN; UNCERTAINTY;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ESTIMATION; LIFE CYCLE; PRODUCT DESIGN; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

EID: 84862595514     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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