Abstract
The challenge of holistically integrating environmental sustainability considerations with design decision-making requires novel representations for design and sustainability-related data that allow designers to understand correlations among them. Challenges such as (1) lack of suitable data & information models, (2) methods that simultaneously consider environmental sustainability as well as design constraints, and (3) uncertainty models for characterizing subjectivity in environmental sustainability-based decision making, pose serious impediments towards this goal.
Degree Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Department
Mechanical Engineering
Date of Award
January 2015
Recommended Citation
Ramanujan, Devarajan, "Data Representation Methods For Environmentally Conscious Product Design" (2015). Open Access Dissertations. 1297.
https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/open_access_dissertations/1297
First Advisor
Karthik Ramani
Committee Member 1
Fu Zhao
Committee Member 2
John W. Sutherland
Committee Member 3
Niklas Elmqvist