A Fuzzy Delphi-Analytical Hierarchy Process Approach for Ranking of Effective Material Selection Criteria

Table 1

A brief review on previous research about material selection approaches.

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
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
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
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
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
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
9	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
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