Analyses for Durability and System Design Lifetime: A Multidisciplinary Approach

By Joseph H. Saleh

Analyses for Durability and System Design Lifetime: A Multidisciplinary Approach

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.

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Analyses for Durability and System Design Lifetime A Multidisciplinary Approach

Chapter 1: Introduction On Time

Chapter 2: To Reduce or to Extend Durability? A Qualitative Discussion of Issues at Stake

Chapter 3: A Brief History of Economic Thought on Durability

3.2: Periodization and the History of Economic Thought on Durability

3.3: The Origins and Preanalytic Period in the History of Economic Thought on Durability: Knut Wicksell and Edward Chamberlin

3.4: Growing Interest in Durability: Limitations of the Price Quantity Analysis and Suspicious Industry Practices

3.5: Flawed Analytic Period in the History of Economic Thought on Durability

3.6: The Swan-Centric Period in the History of Economic Thought on Durability

3.7: The Identification of the Time Inconsistency Problem for Durable Goods Monopolists

3.8: Recent Economic Literature on Durability

3.9: Limitations of Current Economic Thinking about Durability

3.10: Conclusions

Appendix Origins of Coase S Contribution to the Time Inconsistency Problem of Durable Goods Monopolists

Chapter 4: Analysis of Marginal Cost of Durability and System Cost per Day

Chapter 5: Flawed Metrics System Cost per Day and Cost per Payload

Chapter 6: 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: Beyond Cost Models, System Utility or Revenue Models Example of a Communications Satellite

Appendix B: On Durability and Economic Depreciation

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