Thermoplastic materials used in the field of electronics are usually given a metallic surface coating treatment after their shaping process. The purpose of this -aesthetic changes aside-, is to create an electrically ...

The disassembly at the end of life (EOL) of the product has adquired importance as a result of the initiatives to reduce environmental impact through the reuse and recycling of components. To decide what EOL to take, the ...

The term ‘land use’ is traditionally used to denote a classification of human activities which occupy land area. In the field of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), the terms ‘land use’ or ‘land use impact’ have been used to ...

The Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology is used to evaluate environmental impacts by grouping the negative effects upon the environment of a given product or process into a reduced set of impact categories. Global ...

In the past years there have been great advances in the development of ontologies applied to the field of engineering design, essentially in functional and structural models. A great diversity of methodologies for the ...

The terms Function, Behaviour, Structure have been used since the 1990s in order to define a framework where a system’s functionality can be modelled and represented: the FBS framework. Within this framework, Function ...

Several difficulties arise in the inclusion of traffic noise as an impact category within the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology. First of all, traffic noise -unlike other pollutants typically studied in LCA- is not ...

The development of ontologies in the field of engineering design is progressively gaining relevance. This expansion originates from the improvements achieved once the knowledge available within a design context is formalized ...