Introducing a novel method for materials selection in mechanical design using Z-transformation in statistics for normalization of material properties

Materials and Design

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 4396-4404

  Fayazbakhsh, K ^a   Abedian, A ^a   Manshadi, B Dehghan ^a   Khabbaz, R Sarfaraz ^a  

^a SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

H. Performance indices; H. Selection for material properties; H. Weighting and ranking factors

Indexed keywords

CANDIDATE MATERIALS; DESIGN PROCESS; DIGITAL LOGIC; H. PERFORMANCE INDICES; H. SELECTION FOR MATERIAL PROPERTIES; H. WEIGHTING AND RANKING FACTORS; MATERIAL PROPERTY; MATERIALS SELECTION; MECHANICAL DESIGN; NOVEL METHODS; RANKING PROCEDURES; SCALING FUNCTIONS; Z-TRANSFORMATION;

MATERIALS;

EID: 67649410179     PISSN: 02641275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.matdes.2009.04.004     Document Type: Article

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