| Number | Author(s) | Year | Criteria | Approach | Area of application |
| 1 | Mayyas et al. [15] | 2011 | Dent resistance: yield strength, panel thickness, and panel stiffness, ease of manufacturing: forming, joining, painting noise, vibration, harshness, fuel economy: density, cost: material cost, manufacturing cost, temperature performance, crashworthiness, durability: fatigue strength, corrosion resistance, wear resistance, bending stiffness, and torsional stiffness | Quality function deployment (QFD) and AHP method | Vehicular structures, mainly the automotive body-in-white (BiW) panels at the conceptual design stage |
| 2 | Rathod and Kanzaria [16] | 2011 | Latent heat, density, specific heat for solid, specific heat for liquid, thermal conductivity, and cost | A systematic evaluation model based on AHP and fuzzy TOPSIS methods | Phase change material in latent heat thermal energy storage system |
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3 | Maity et al. [17] | 2012 | Surface hardness, core hardness, surface fatigue limit, bending fatigue limit, and ultimate tensile strength | Complex proportional assessment of alternatives with gray relations (COPRAS-G) method | Gear material selection |
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4 | Chatterjee and Chakraborty [18] | 2012 | Density, hardness, yield tensile strength, modulus of elasticity, compressive strength, shear strength, Charpy impact strength, thermal conductivity, coefficient of linear thermal expansion, and tool material cost | Extended PROMETHEE II, EXPROM2, COPRAS-G, ORESTE, and operational competitiveness rating analysis (OCRA) methods | Cutting tool in machining applications |
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5 | Jeya Girubha and Vinodh [19] | 2012 | Maximum temperature limit, recyclability, elongation, weight, thermal conductivity, tensile strength, cost, and toxicity level | Combined fuzzy VIKOR and environmental impact analysis | Instrument panel from automotive component |
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6 | Peng and Xiao [10] | 2013 | Density, permissible slide speed, permissible pressure, elastic modulus, tensile strength, thermal expansion coefficient, thermal conductivity, hardness, wear resistance, corrosion resistance, heat treatability, manufacturability, economics: recycle cost, material cost, processing cost, environmental coordination: disposal, reusability, energy consumption, and pollution | PROMETHEE combined with analytic network process (ANP) method | Design of a split journal bearing of a machine tool with hydrodynamic lubrication |
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7 | Liu et al. [7] | 2013 | Maximum temperature, limit, recyclability, elongation, weight, thermal conductivity, tensile strength, cost, and toxicity level | Interval 2-tuple linguistic VIKOR (ITL-VIKOR) method under uncertain and incomplete information environment | Flywheel, automotive component |
| 8 | Karande et al. [4] | 2013 | Core hardness, surface hardness, surface fatigue limit, bending fatigue limit, ultimate tensile strength, density, specific stiffness, corrosion resistance, wear resistance, material cost, yield strength, Young’s modulus, fire resistance, repairability, resistance to corrosion, fabrication cost, risk, overall potential for weight savings, dielectric constant, thermal expansion, volume resistance, and dielectric strength | Utility concept and desirability function approaches | Gear material, material for load wagon walls, high speed naval craft material, and insulation material for computer cables |
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Çalişkan et al. [5] | 2013 | Material cost, Young’s modulus, compressive strength, fracture toughness, material’s mechanical loss coefficient, and sufficient hardness | AHP and Entropy, EXPROM2, TOPSIS, and VIKOR | Hard machining in production of tools and molds, tool holder used in hard milling |
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10 | Anojkumar et al. [6] | 2014 | Yield strength, ultimate tensile strength, percentage of elongation, hardness, cost, corrosion rate, and wear rate | FAHP-TOPSIS, FAHP-VIKOR, FAHP-ELECTRE, and FAHP-PROMETHEE | Pipes material selection problem in sugar industry |
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