Revisiting classical design in engineering from a perspective of frugality

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Abstract
The conservative nature of design in engineering has typically unleashed products fabricated with generous amounts of raw materials. This is epitomized by the factor of safety whose values higher than unity suggests various uncertainties of design that are tackled through material padding. This effort proposes a new factor of safety called the factor of frugality that could be used in ecodesign and which addresses both rigors of the classical design process and quantification of savings in materials going into a product. An example of frugal shaft design together with some other cases has been presented to explain the working of the factor of frugality. Adoption of the frugality factor would entail a change in design philosophy whereby designers would constantly make avail of a rigorous design process coupled with material-saving schemes for realizing products that are benign to the environment. Such a change in the foundations of design would abet the stewardship of earth in avoiding planetary boundaries since engineering influences a significant proportion of human endeavors. Keywords: Safety engineering, Mechanical engineering
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Authors Balkrishna C. Rao
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Journal Heliyon
Year 2017
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