The manufacturing sector has a major impact on the three sustainability dimensions
represented by social, economic, and environmental aspects. Most of the work on …

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 …

Material selection problem can be interpreted as an intricate MCDM problem. The aim of this
work is to provide a simple and comprehensive MCDM-based framework for solving this …

The parameters necessary for the reliable design of PEEK gears were determined. The
effect of a steel gear's surface on the polymer gear's wear was investigated. Values for the …

The ever increasing demand and depletion of fossil fuels had an adverse impact on
environmental pollution. The selection of appropriate source of biodiesel and proper …

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 …

A systematic combination of experimental and numerical methods was employed in a
comprehensive study on the high-cycle tooth bending fatigue of polymer gears with a …

In engineering design, the decision to select an optimal material for a particular product is a
problem requiring multi-criteria decision analysis that involves both qualitative and …

This paper presents a new accelerated testing procedure for plastic gears that is based on
several different levels of testing. The iterative testing procedure fulfils requests from the …

Europe has about 75% of energy inefficient buildings and 8% of population in energy
poverty with difficulties of affording energy bills for keeping adequate levels of warmth …