Abstract Life-cycle cost analysis (LCCA) is a decision-making tool particularly useful for the design of bridges as it predicts lifetime expenses and supports inspections management maintenance activities. LCCA allows to consider uncertainties on loads, resistances, degradation numerical modelling structural response analysis. It also permits different limit states types damage in unified frame...

Heat pumps (HPs) which use low temperature (waste) heat and renewable energy sources to provide high are widely regarded as a critical technology for reducing carbon dioxide emissions in the industrial sector. The HighLift considered here can output up around 200 °C. This article focuses on Life Cycle Cost Analysis (LCCA) method its economic evaluation of different industrial-scale heating meth...

While much has changed in product modularity research in the 18 years since the independence axiom, some basic questions remain unanswered. Perhaps the most fundamental of those questions is whether increasing modularity actually saves money. The goal of the research behind this paper was to clearly define the fundamental relationship between product modularity and product cost. Our previous wo...

Military assets are generally appraised at the acquisition stage on the basis of their total life cycle costs. This study provides a theoretical foundation and a parametric cost model for forecasting the life cycle cost for any kind of heavy military equipment. In the model, the asset operating and maintenance (O&M) costs are estimated as a function of its age over its optimal operational life....