Development of composites based on recycled polypropylene for injection moulding automobile parts using hierarchical clustering analysis and principal component estimate

Journal of Cleaner Production

Volumn 137, Issue , 2016, Pages 632-643

  Gu, Fu ^a   Hall, Philip ^a   Miles, N J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM NINGBO CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Decision support system; Hierarchical cluster analysis; Manufacturing; Polypropylene; Principal component estimate

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMOBILES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; ELASTOMERS; ESTIMATION; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; INJECTION MOLDING; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; LINEAR REGRESSION; MANUFACTURE; PLASTIC PRODUCTS; PLASTIC RECYCLING; PLASTICS INDUSTRY; POLYPROPYLENES; SCRAP METAL REPROCESSING; TAGUCHI METHODS; TALC;

HIERARCHICAL CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HIERARCHICAL CLUSTERING ANALYSIS; LINEAR REGRESSION MODELS; MALEIC ANHYDRIDE GRAFTED POLYPROPYLENE; MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES; ORGANICALLY MODIFIED MONTMORILLONITE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS; RECYCLED POLYPROPYLENE;

PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 84990933966     PISSN: 09596526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.07.028     Document Type: Article

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