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Sustainable Design and Life Cycle Engineering

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Products and Services".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 May 2024) | Viewed by 3462

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Nita Yodo

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Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58102, USA
Interests: sustainability; reliability; resilience; failure recovery; uncertainty quantification; decision analysis; disaster management; complex system; system engineering; optimization
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Dr. Lucy Aragon

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Department of Industrial Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima 32, Peru
Interests: healthcare system; multicriteria decision-making; performance and quality assessment

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Developing a resilient and sustainable system that can last throughout its life cycle has become more challenging in this new era of uncertainty. The lean systems concept that has been proven to save time and cost for decades is now failing due to the prolonged effect of the COVID-19 pandemic.

This Special Issue seeks submissions that highlight innovative sustainable design and life cycle engineering frameworks that can guarantee the system’s proper functioning under external and internal disturbances and uncertainties. This Special Issue will be of interest to and benefit many readers in academia, industry, and other practitioners or policymakers involved in the sustainable development of our complex, day-to-day systems.

In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) multidisciplinary practices from the broad research areas of data (or big data) analysis, decision analysis, design optimization, system engineering, and uncertainty analysis.

I look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Nita Yodo
Dr. Lucy Aragon
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • big data analysis
  • complex systems/network
  • design optimization
  • life cycle assessment
  • model-based engineering
  • risk analysis
  • sustainable design
  • system engineering
  • system safety/security
  • uncertainty analysis

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A Quantitative Approach of Measuring Sustainability Risk in Pipeline Infrastructure Systems
by Labiba Noshin Asha, Ying Huang, Nita Yodo and Haitao Liao
Sustainability 2023, 15(19), 14229; https://doi.org/10.3390/su151914229 - 26 Sep 2023
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The secure and dependable functioning of pipeline infrastructure systems is pivotal for transporting vital energy resources during this transition era towards a more sustainable energy future. This paper presents a novel quantitative approach for assessing sustainability risk in pipeline infrastructure systems and provides [...] Read more.
The secure and dependable functioning of pipeline infrastructure systems is pivotal for transporting vital energy resources during this transition era towards a more sustainable energy future. This paper presents a novel quantitative approach for assessing sustainability risk in pipeline infrastructure systems and provides insights for holistic sustainability design in pipeline operations. The proposed methodology introduces a comprehensive framework for quantifying sustainability risk by integrating probabilities of failure and cumulative consequences from social, environmental, and economic dimensions that impact pipeline integrity. Real-world pipeline incident data were employed to identify the main causes of pipeline incidents like corrosion failure, equipment malfunction, and excavation damage. The consequences arising from these incidents are categorized to measure the cumulative consequences of sustainability risk. By quantifying sustainability risk, operators of pipeline infrastructure systems can strategically mitigate and manage potential disruptions affecting long-term sustainability incentives. In doing so, the proposed approach significantly bolsters the vital role of pipeline infrastructure systems in fostering sustainable energy transportation, yielding substantial benefits for global communities and economies. Full article
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Towards Evaluating the Robustness of the Open-Source Product Community under Multiple Attack Strategies
by Hongli Zhou and Mingxuan Yang
Sustainability 2023, 15(17), 13035; https://doi.org/10.3390/su151713035 - 29 Aug 2023
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As an emerging product innovation model, open-source innovation has undergone rapid development in recent years. The sustainability and stability of the open-source product community (OSPC) is crucial for product innovation, and the effect that users have on the OSPC’s robustness is an important [...] Read more.
As an emerging product innovation model, open-source innovation has undergone rapid development in recent years. The sustainability and stability of the open-source product community (OSPC) is crucial for product innovation, and the effect that users have on the OSPC’s robustness is an important and closely scrutinized topic. This paper explores the robustness of the OSPC from the aspect of user knowledge contribution. We first construct an OSPC network and analyze its characteristics. An improved node evaluation method is then proposed to identify different types of knowledge contribution nodes. Further, seven node- and edge-based attack strategies are designed to simulate network robustness changes, with evaluation indicators being proposed for structural robustness and knowledge robustness. The results reveal that our proposed node evaluation method can effectively identify nodes of different knowledge contribution types. Additionally, the network is found to have different robustness performance when facing multiple deliberate attacks on three important knowledge contribution node types. Moreover, the network shows different robustness characteristics when facing deliberate attacks on betweenness and weight edges. Our findings can benefit product innovation and OSPC managers by enhancing the robustness of the OSPC network. Full article
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