A linguistic based preliminary procedure for qualitative polymer process design

Materials and Design

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 181-191

  Chen, Li ^a   Ku, K'uang ^a   Ramani, Karthik ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Linguistic; Polymer process; Preliminary engineering; Qualitative design; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSION MOLDING; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; FUZZY SETS; INFERENCE ENGINES; PROCESS ENGINEERING;

LINGUISTIC DEFUZZIFICATION;

POLYMERS;

EID: 0030362050     PISSN: 02613069     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0261-3069(96)00046-5     Document Type: Article

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