The development and use of a methodology for the environmentally-conscious selection of materials
U.G.K. Wegst and M.F. Ashby
Proceedings of the Third Biennial World Conference on Integrated Design and Process Technology (IDTP),
Berlin, Germany, July 6-9, 1998, Vol 5, pp88-93
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Abstract
A materials selection methodology and its software implementation, developed to aid the designer in making environmentally conscious decisions early in the design process, is described.