Abstract
Multiple industries have hailed lightweighting promise to reduce the mass of their product at equivalent or improved performance. Lightweighting as a strategy encompasses lightweight end-product desired attributes and through-life processing decisions. Assessment of lightweighting gathers information for decision-making towards the optimization of these strategies. An exploratory study, using systems thinking is conducted, to identify requirements of lightweighting and its assessment in terms of holistically defining its impact on the sustainability of its background system, the Earth.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1319-1328 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Journal | Procedings of the Design Society |
| Volume | 4 |
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| Publication status | Published - 19 May 2024 |
| Event | 18th International Design Conference: 18th International Design Conference - Croatia, Dubrovnik , Croatia Duration: 20 May 2024 → 23 May 2024 Conference number: 18 https://www.designconference.org/ |
Funding
This research work and publication was funded by the University of Strathclyde
Keywords
- lightweighting
- life cycle assessment (LCA)
- sustainability
- decision making
- systems thinking
