Dr Joseph H. Saleh is an Assistant Professor of Aerospace Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He received his PhD from the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT and served as the Executive Director of the Ford-MIT Alliance. His research focuses on issues of design lifetime, and how to embed flexibility in the design of complex engineering systems in general, and aerospace systems in particular. Dr Saleh is the author or co-author of fifty technical publications, and the recipient of numerous awards for his teaching and research contributions. He served as a technical consultant to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, I.B.M., and has collaborated on numerous research projects with American and European aerospace companies.
1. Introduction: on time
2. To reduce or to extend a system design lifetime?
3. A brief history of the economic thought on durability
4. Analysis of marginal cost of durability and system cost per day
5. Flawed metrics: system cost per day and cost per payload
6. Durability choice and optimal design lifetime for complex engineering systems
Epilogue
Appendix A
Appendix B.
