Engineering Perspectives and Environmental Life Cycle Optimization to Enhance Aggregate Mining in Vietnam

Automotive Wheel Optimization to Enhance the Fatigue Life

Nowadays, lightweight automotive component design, regarding fuel consumption, environmental pollutants and manufacturing costs, is one of the main issues in the automotive societies. In addition, considering safety reasons, the durability of the automotive components, as one of the most important design requirements should be guaranteed. In this paper, a two-step optimization process including...

ENVIRONMENTAL LIFE - CYCLE ENGINEERING : A concept for proactive integration of life - cycle thinking in environmental engineering university programmes

The paper presents the concept of "Environmental Life-Cycle Engineering" as a preventative and systems based approach to environmental improvements in industrial society. The concept is motivated by present major changes in strategies for industrial environmental performance. It is also motivated by long-term needs in terms of environmental efficiency and multidisciplinar optimisation. This lea...

Environmental life cycle assessment and optimization of buildings

The work aims to present initial efforts to the development of an integrated user friendly (architect-oriented) tool for the environmental assessment and optimization of buildings. The tool will focus on the preliminary design phase, where improvements, having a major influence on the building lifecycle, are still possible. A software tool for dynamic simulation of the building lifecycle will b...

Life-Cycle Engineering and Design

ENVIRONMENTAL CONSIDERATIONS play an increasingly important role in design and development efforts of many industries. "Cradle to grave" assessments are being used not only by product designers and manufacturers, but also by product users (and environmentalists) to consider the relative merits of various available products and to improve the environmental acceptability of products. Life-cycle e...

Membrane Engineering: Future Perspectives