Multiple criteria decision making with life cycle assessment for material selection of composites

Express Polymer Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1062-1074

  Milani, A S ^a   Eskicioglu, C ^a   Robles, K ^a   Bujun, K ^a   Hosseini Nasab, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Life cycle assessment; Material selection; Multiple criteria decision making; Polymer composites; Sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053928211     PISSN: 1788618X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3144/expresspolymlett.2011.104     Document Type: Article

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