7.1.1 Survivability Design Principles for Enhanced Concept Generation and Evaluation

Abstract

AbstractSurvivability is the ability of systems to minimize the impact of finite‐duration disturbances on value delivery. Previous work developed and tested a set of seventeen survivability design principles spanning susceptibility reduction, vulnerability reduction, and resilience enhancement strategies. In this paper, a process is described for applying the survivability design principles to the concept generation phase of Multi‐Attribute Tradespace Exploration, a system analysis methodology integrating decision theory with model‐based design. Applying the design principles serves both to augment the creativity of system designers by ensuring consideration of a broad tradespace of design alternatives and to quickly screen a large number of candidate design variables before proceeding to concept evaluation.