A NOVEL METHOD FOR MATERIAL SELECTION IN INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS

L. Anojkumar, M. Ilangkumaran, B.Kirubakaran, L.Arulmurugan, S. Mohamed Hassan, S.Lokesh

Abstract: Selection of material for a particular task in an industrial process is beneficiary for performance enhancement and profit margin. Inappropriate chosen material may reduce the maximum efficiency of the machines. As a wide range of material selection methods are available that consider various conflicting factors such as mechanical, environmental and chemical factors. In this study, a combination of non-linear normalization with weighting factor approach method is illustrated and explained. This method helps in selecting the material under quantitative analysis and capable of selecting the appropriate material using digital logical method. To overcome the consequence in the digital logic method a non- linear normalization is combined with DL method is employed to obtain better result. The results of these two methods are compared to explore the flexibility in the MDL method. The proposed model is to support significantly for selecting suitable material in industry applications. The result of the proposed model obtains M5 is the best suitable material.

Keywords: Attributes, DL method, MDL method, Material selection, weighting factor, Scaled property value.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2014.0323010