MATERIALS & DESIGN, vol.31, no.4, pp.2129-2133, 2010 (SCI-Expanded)
Material selection, one of the mostly encountered decision problems in material science literature, is still an onerous task for manufacturing organisations. Achieving accurate solution to this issue, the paper developed a model selection interface to enable analytical solutions to different problem concepts in material selection under multiple attribute decision-making (MADM) environments. Specifically, the generic framework of the fuzzy axiomatic design-model selection interface (FAD-MSI) is modified and successfully applied to the different material selection problem concepts. Consequently, the derived problem-model sets can be referred to accomplish further proposals on this era. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.