Lab Publications

Johnson M, Kirchain R. 2011. The Importance of Product Development Cycle Time and Cost in the Development of Product Families. Journal of Engineering Design. 22:87-99.
Gaustad G, Olivetti E, Kirchain R. 2011. Toward Sustainable Material Usage: Evaluating the Importance of Market Motivated Agency in Modeling Material Flows. Environmental Science & Technology. 45:4110-4117.
Olivetti E, Gaustad G, Field F, Kirchain R. 2011. Increasing Secondary and Renewable Material Use: A Chance Constrained Modeling Approach to Manage Feedstock Quality Variation. Environmental Science & Technology. 45:4118-4126.
Fuchs E, Field F, Roth R, Kirchain R. 2011. Plastic cars in China? The significance of production location over markets for technology competitiveness in the United States versus the People's Republic of China International Journal of Production Economics. 132:79-92.
Nadeau M-C, Kar A, Roth R, Kirchain R. 2011. A Dynamic Process-Based Cost Modeling Approach to Understand Learning Effects in Manufacturing. International Journal of Production Economics.
Li P, Dahmus J, Guldberg S, Riddervold HO, Kirchain R. 2011. How Much Sorting is Enough: Identifying Economic and Scrap-Reuse Benefits of Sorting Technologies. Journal of Industrial Ecology. 15:743-759.
Fuchs E, Liu S, Kirchain R. 2011. The Future of Silicon Photonics: Not So Fast? Insights from 100G Ethernet LAN Transceivers Journal of Lightwave Technology. 29:2319-2326.
Fleming N, Alonso E, Field F, Kirchain R, Roth R. 2011. Recycling and Material Price: An Exploration of the Effects of Secondary Substitutability on Price Stability.
Zgola ML, Olivetti E, Weber C, Boyd S, Mangold J., Abedrabbo R, Williams E, Gregory J, Kirchain R. 2011. Environmental Assessment of IT Products Using a Triage Approach. ISSST International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technology.
Miller T.R., Gregory J, Kirchain R. 2011. Methods for Estimating End of Life Electronics Exports from North America. ISSST International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technology.
Patanavanich S, Olivetti E, Gregory J, Kirchain R. 2011. Exploring the Viability of Probabilistic Underspecification to Streamlined Life Cycle Assessment. ISSST International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technology.
Kirchain R, Alonso E. 2011. Material Availability And Recycling: Identifying Risks And Evaluating Responses. Materials for Energy and Environmental Sustainability. :549-564.
Gregory J, Jeong P, Olivetti E, Kirchain R, Blanco E. 2011. Impact of Uncertainty in Activity Data and Emissions Factors on Firm Scope 3 Greenhouse Gas Emissions Estimates. ISSST International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technology.
Fleming N, Alonso E, Field F, Kirchain R, Roth R. 2011. Non‐Price Material Scarcity Metrics: How Well, and Under What Conditions Is the Risk They Indicate Reflected by Material Price? ISIE 2011 6th International Conference on Industrial Ecology.
Alonso E, Field F, Roth R, Kirchain R., Sherman A, Everson M, Wallington T. 2011. Evaluating Dynamic Factors That Affect Rare Earths Scarcity. ISIE 2011 6th International Conference on Industrial Ecology.
Alonso E, Field F, Roth R, Kirchain R. 2010. Motivating Sustainable Material Use through Industry-Level Simulation Modeling of Platinum Stocks and Flows. TMS Annual Meeting and Exhibition - EPD Congress. :827-834.
Gaustad G, Olivetti E, Kirchain R. 2010. Design for Recycling: Evaluation and Efficient Alloy Modification. Journal of Industrial Ecology. 14:286–308.
Fuchs E, Kirchain R. 2010. Design for Location? The Impact of Manufacturing Offshore on Technology Competitiveness in the Optoelectronics Industry Management Science. 56:2323-2349.
Johnson M, Kirchain R. 2010. Developing and Assessing Commonality Metrics for Product Families: A Process-based Cost Modeling Approach. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management. 57:643-648.
Johnson M, Kirchain R. 2009. Quantifying the Effects of Parts Consolidation and Development Costs on Material Selection Decisions: A Process-Based Costing Approach. International Journal of Production Economics. 119:174-186.
Cheah L, Heywood J, Kirchain R. 2009. Aluminum Stock and Flows in the U.S. Light-Duty Vehicle Fleet and Implications on the Material Cycle Energy Use. Journal of Industrial Ecology. 13:718-734.
Gregory J, Nadeau M-C, Kirchain R. 2009. Evaluating the Economic Viability of a Material Recovery System: The Case of Cathode Ray Tube Glass. Environmental Science and Technology. 43:9245-9251.
Johnson M, Kirchain R. 2009. Quantifying the effects of product family decisions on material selection: A process-based costing approach. International Journal of Production Economics. 120:653-668.
Kirchain R, Field F, Roth R, Alonso E. 2009. Strategies to Address Risks of Platinum Scarcity for Supply Chain Downstream Firms. IEEE International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technology.
Fuchs E, Field F, Roth R, Kirchain R. 2008. Strategic Materials Selection in the Automotive Body: Economic Opportunities for Polymer Composite Design. Composites Science and Technology. 68:1989-2002.

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