Material Selections by a Hybrid Multi-Criteria Approach

• Main Author: D’Errico, Fabrizio (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Materials,
• Subjects: Materials science.; Algorithms.; Industrial engineering.; Materials Science.; Materials Science, general.; Operating Procedures, Materials Treatment.; Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity.

This Brief presents a new method that is based on the author and his students’ shared experience in applying a structured procedure that has as its main goal the creation of a material selection technique that uses language and employs a platform that is not restricted to engineers. Based on a hybri...

Table of Contents:

• The Material Selection Strategy
• Multi-objective optimization in engineering design
• The total explicit-implicit approach: the special QFD matrix for material selection
• The use of  QFD4Mat and graphic tools for the material screening in product development processes
• References.