Analyses for Durability and System Design Lifetime—A Multidisciplinary Approach

Analyses for Durability and System Design Lifetime: A Multidisciplinary Approach

by Joseph H. Saleh 

2008 (216 pages)

ISBN:9780521867894

Using a satellite example to illustrate the essence and provide a quantitative application, this book offers a systemic qualitative and quantitative approach to system design life cycle problems.

Analyses for Durability and System Design Lifetime—A Multidisciplinary Approach

To The Reader

Preface

Chapter 1

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Introduction—On Time

Chapter 2

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To Reduce or to Extend Durability?—A Qualitative Discussion of Issues at Stake

Chapter 3

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A Brief History of Economic Thought on Durability

Chapter 4

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Analysis of Marginal Cost of Durability and System Cost per Day

Chapter 5

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Flawed Metrics—System Cost per Day and Cost per Payload

Chapter 6

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Durability Choice and Optimal Design Lifetime for Complex Engineering Systems

Epilogue—Perspectives in Design—The Deacon’s Masterpiece and Hundred-Year Aircraft, Spacecraft, and Other Complex Engineering Systems

Appendix A

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Beyond Cost Models, System Utility or Revenue Models—Example of a Communications Satellite

Appendix B

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On Durability and Economic Depreciation