My documented contribution
Material, manufacturing and assembly work, explicitly credited in the final contribution statement.
Materials, assembly and a seat’s next life.
A group study of aircraft seating as a circular product-service system. My work focused on material choices, manufacturing routes and assembly of the primary structure, secondary systems and accessories.
PROJECTSustainable Aircraft Seat
MY ROLEMaterials, manufacturing and assembly within a group design
CONTEXTGroup project
Team project
Team project
Inspect full-size image ↗01 / OVERVIEW
The project in a minute.
THE OUTCOME
Contributed the materials, manufacturing and assembly proposal to a group seat concept, alongside shared lifecycle and circularity studies.
What supports this? ↓- The challenge
- Improve the material use, serviceability and end-of-life route of an aircraft seat, while separating long-life structure from parts that wear out sooner.
- My contribution
- Materials, manufacturing and assembly within a group design. The final report explicitly credits my work on materials, manufacturing and structural assembly; whole-product CAD and lifecycle calculations have separate team credits.
- Read this in context
- Group concept study. Whole-product CAD and lifecycle calculations are team outputs. Mass estimates differ across report submissions, so no single final reduction percentage is presented.
02 / THINKING
The choices behind the result.
Open a chapter to follow the work and the choices made along the way.
01 / ENGINEERINGChoose materials together with their production routes
My contribution covers the primary structure, secondary systems and accessories: material selection, manufacturing processes and structural assembly.
Inspect the supporting evidence ↓02 / DESIGNDesign replacement around different component lifetimes
The group concept separates the long-life frame from replaceable mesh and accessories, within a proposed leasing, maintenance and recovery system.
Inspect the supporting evidence ↓03 / EVIDENCE
Results, and what they mean.
Group concept study. Whole-product CAD and lifecycle calculations are team outputs. Mass estimates differ across report submissions, so no single final reduction percentage is presented.
Group system concept
Replace worn parts without replacing the entire seat; connect maintenance to material recovery.
Evaluation status
Lifecycle and mass estimates belong to specific design iterations, not a certified production seat.
Source notes & scope 2
- Sustainable Aircraft Seat Designpp. 20–24
Final system proposal and individual contribution statement on p. 24.
- Sustainable Aircraft Seat Designpp. 12–18
Earlier submission; its weight estimates are not interchangeable with the final system.
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