
Multi-criteria Decision Analysis for Supporting the Selection of Engineering Materials in Product Design
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Key Features
- Discusses the rationale for optimal materials selection in the context of achieving the best engineering design
- Describes methodologies for supporting enhanced decision-making in materials selection
- Includes end-of-chapter review questions and practical case studies from biomedical and aerospace engineering applications
Readership
Table of Contents
Preface
List of Figures
List of Tables
Chapter 1. The Importance of Decision Support in Materials Selection
1.1 Introduction to Materials Selection
1.2 Background and Justification for Formalized Materials Selection
1.3 Decision-Making and Concession in Product Design
1.4 The Position of Materials Selection in the Engineering Design Process—from Concept to Detail Stages
1.5 Understanding the Functional Requirements and Design Criteria in Selecting Materials
1.6 The Relationship Between Materials Selection and Processing
1.7 The Significance of Design Adaptation and Materials Substitution
1.8 Materials Selection and Sustainable Products
1.9 Qualitative Versus Quantitative Approaches to Materials Selection
1.10 The Role of Computer-Based Materials Selection and Materials Databases
Review Questions
References
Chapter 2. Screening of Materials
2.1 Justification for an Initial Screening Process
2.2 Introduction to the Use of Material Attributes
2.3 Material Indices and Critical Material Aspects Used by Product Designers
2.4 Brief Review of Current Formalized Screening Methods
2.5 Materials’ Property Charts (the “Ashby” approach)
2.6 Materials Identification and Use of Computer-Based Tools
Review Questions
References
Chapter 3. Multi-criteria Decision-Making for Materials Selection
3.1 Introduction to Multi-criteria Decision-Making
3.2 MCDM as a Subdiscipline of Operations Research
3.3 Justification for Applying MCDM in Materials Selection
3.4 Application of MODM and MADM in Materials Selection and Design
3.5 Utilizing Outputs from Finite Element Analysis as Inputs to MADM in Materials Selection
Review Questions
References
Chapter 4. Multiattribute Decision-Making for Ranking of Candidate Materials
4.1 Rationalization for Using Multiple-Attribute Decision-Making
4.2 Introduction to the Ranking of Materials
4.3 Structure of Data in Materials Selection
4.4 Normalization of Criteria in MADM
4.5 Weighting Procedure of Criteria
4.6 Some Recent MADM Methods Being Used in Materials Selection
4.7 Aggregation Method for Complex Materials Ranking Problems
4.8 Use of Ranges of Values for Properties of Materials as Opposed to Discrete Values
4.9 Computer Implementation—Application of Spreadsheet and Mathematical Analysis Techniques to Facilitate the Analysis of Ranking Problems
Review Questions
References
Chapter 5. Case Studies of Using Materials Ranking
5.1 Rationale for Case Studies
5.2 Materials Selection for Biomedical Implants
5.3 Materials Selection for Aircraft Structure Repair
Review Questions
References
Chapter 6. Future Developments
6.1 Overview of the Current Situation
6.2 The Development of Decision-Making Methods for Actual Design Scenarios
6.3 The Application of MCDM Methods to Complex Materials Selection Problems
References
Product details
- No. of pages: 124
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Butterworth-Heinemann 2013
- Published: February 28, 2013
- Imprint: Butterworth-Heinemann
- eBook ISBN: 9780080993904
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Ali Jahan

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Kevin Edwards

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