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Overview

Bert Bras is affiliated with the Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States and primarily works within the field of Engineering. Their research spans several subfields, including Aerospace Engineering, Civil and Structural Engineering, Control and Systems Engineering, Strategy and Management, and Management Science and Operations Research.

The scientific topics addressed in their work reflect a focus on Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis, Supply Chain Resilience and Risk Management, Complex Systems and Decision Making, Systems Engineering Methodologies and Applications, Spacecraft and Cryogenic Technologies, Sustainability and Ecological Systems Analysis, and Ecosystem dynamics and resilience.

Recent papers by Bert Bras include the following:

  • Ecological network analysis of urban-industrial ecosystems, 2020, Journal of Industrial Ecology
  • A New Resilience Metric to Compare System of Systems Architecture, 2021, IEEE Systems Journal
  • Adding a Detrital Actor to Increase System of System Resilience: A Case Study Test of a Biologically Inspired Design Heuristic to Guide Sociotechnical Network Evolution, 2020, Journal of Mechanical Design
  • System of system design-for-resilience heuristics derived from forestry case study variants, 2022, Reliability Engineering & System Safety
  • Euclid preparation, 2023, Astronomy and Astrophysics

Frequent co-authors with whom Bert Bras has collaborated include:

  • Marc J. Weissburg
  • Bryan C. Watson
  • M. Portaluppi
  • Szilvia Szmolka
  • M. Schirmer

Publication venues in which Bert Bras's work appears regularly include:

  • IOP Conference Series Materials Science and Engineering
  • Procedia CIRP
  • Journal of Industrial Ecology
  • IEEE Systems Journal
  • Journal of Mechanical Design

Best Publications

  • A survey of unresolved problems in life cycle assessment

    John Reap;Felipe Roman;Scott Duncan;Bert Bras

  • Making functional sales environmentally and economically beneficial through product remanufacturing

    Erik Sundin;Bert Bras

  • Environmentally benign manufacturing: Observations from Japan, Europe and the United States

    Timothy Gutowski;Cynthia Murphy;David Allen;Diana Bauer

  • THE COMPROMISE DECISION SUPPORT PROBLEM AND THE ADAPTIVE LINEAR PROGRAMMING ALGORITHM

    Farrokh Mistree;Owen F. Hughes;Bert Bras

  • Implications of Modularity on Product Design for the Life Cycle

    Patrick J. Newcomb;Bert Bras;David W. Rosen

  • Product, process, and organizational design for remanufacture – an overview of research

    Bert Bras;Mark W. McIntosh

  • Issues in the Automotive Parts Remanufacturing Industry - A Discussion of Results from Surveys Performed among Remanufacturers

    Rick Hammond;Tony Amezquita;Bert Bras;George W. Woodruff

  • Characterizing the Remanufacturability of Engineering Systems

    Tony Amezquita;Rick Hammond;Marc Salazar;Bert Bras

  • Applying Ecological Input-Output Flow Analysis to Material Flows in Industrial Systems: Part I: Tracing Flows

    Reid Bailey;Janet K. Allen;Bert Bras

  • Holism, Biomimicry and Sustainable Engineering

    John Reap;Dayna Baumeister;Bert Bras

  • A decision-based approach to concurrent design

    Farrokh Mistree;Warren Smith;Bert Bras

  • Environmentally Benign manufacturing: Trends in Europe, Japan, and the USA

    David T Allen;Diana Bauer;Bert Bras;Tim Gutowski

  • Incorporating Environmental Issues in Product Design and Realization

    Bert Bras;George W. Woodruff

  • Applying Ecological Input‐Output Flow Analysis to Material Flows in Industrial Systems: Part II: Flow Metrics

    Reid Bailey;Bert Bras;Janet K. Allen

  • A Haptic Assembly and Disassembly Simulation Environment and Associated Computational Load Optimization Techniques

    Adam S. Coutee;Scott D. McDermott;Bert Bras

  • Towards Design for Remanufacturing - Metrics for Assessing Remanufacturability

    Bert Bras;Rick Hammond;George W. Woodruff

  • Designing Design Processes in Decision-Based Concurrent Engineering

    Bert Bras;Farrokh Mistree

  • Energy Implications of Product Leasing

    Koji Intlekofer;Bert Bras;Mark Ferguson

  • ROBUST DESIGN USING COMPROMISE DECISION SUPPORT PROBLEMS

    Bert Bras;Farrokh Mistree

  • Combined Fish and Lettuce Cultivation: An Aquaponics Life Cycle Assessment

    Abigail Cohen;Stephen Malone;Zack Morris;Marc Weissburg

  • A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE ON THE ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES FACING THE AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY: STATE-OF-THE-ART AND DIRECTIONS FOR THE FUTURE

    J. Sutherland;K. Gunter;D. Allen;D. Bauer

  • Rare earth metal recycling

    Laura Meyer;Bert Bras

  • Designing for Material Separation: Lessons From Automotive Recycling

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Frequent Co-Authors

Marc J. Weissburg
Marc J. Weissburg Georgia Institute of Technology
Janet K. Allen
Janet K. Allen University of Oklahoma
Farrokh Mistree
Farrokh Mistree University of Oklahoma
Christiaan J. J. Paredis
Christiaan J. J. Paredis Clemson University
David W. Rosen
David W. Rosen Singapore University of Technology and Design
Timothy J. Wallington
Timothy J. Wallington Ford Motor Company (United States)
John C. Crittenden
John C. Crittenden Georgia Institute of Technology
Marilyn A. Brown
Marilyn A. Brown Georgia Institute of Technology
David T. Allen
David T. Allen The University of Texas at Austin
Miroslav Begovic
Miroslav Begovic Texas A&M University

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