Multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) is a valuable resource within operations research
and management science. Various MCDA methods have been developed over the years …

The selection of a material for a specific engineering purpose is a lengthy and expensive
process. Approximately always more than one material is suitable for an engineering …

The role that materials play in the design and proper functioning of the products has already
been well acknowledged. An incorrectly selected material for a given product may cause …

Technological advancements and the growing material set in the world have created a large
variety of options for industrial designers, but little attention has been given to the tools and …

Designing products for remanufacturing involves incorporating remanufacturing
considerations into the various aspects of product design. The primary objective of this …

The problem with supporting decision-making to help choose materials in engineering
design is that it needs different tools in different situations. This is because there is actually a …

A reliable method of optimization of polymer gears remains, to date, an open challenge, due
to the lack of specific material characterization of polymers and to the complex nonlinear …

Towards the end of a design process designers may face a number of candidate materials
with different attributes that are difficult to distinguish with the aid of available databases. In …

Many companies today have embraced the concept of risk management, usually in the form
of enterprise risk management or supply chain risk management. Both are based on a …

Using the Analytic Network Process (ANP), this article aims at presenting a new concept for
multicriteria material selection by means of allowing feedback and interactions within and …