Considerable effort has been spent on the development of normalization models in multi-
attribute decision-making (MADM) but despite all of these there is no definitive answer to …

The selection of a material for a specific engineering purpose is a lengthy and expensive
process. Approximately always more than one material is suitable for an engineering …

A number of high profile product safety events and recalls have heightened public attention
to the safety and security of the products that people consume and use. While product safety …

The accelerating pace of resource consumption threatens long-term availability of critical
materials: those resources that play an essential role in modern society but are vulnerable to …

Material selection is an onerous process of design activities which needs to be carefully
carried out in order to increase the probability of success. A lot of multi-criteria decision …

This book brings value to anyone working with or designing natural fiber composite
structures. It helps readers understand the value these materials can add to projects, how to …

Engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) and ENM-enabled products have emerged as potentially
high-performance replacements to conventional materials and chemicals. As such, there is …

A decade ago, in 2003, Denis Doordan published an article titled “On Materials” in Design
Issues. 1 His emphasis was on “how the material employed affects the form, function, and …

There are several tools used in materials selection processes by designers. However, they
are mostly engineering based tools, which are dominated by numerical (or technical) …

Touch is one sense through which people judge consumer products. How materials'
properties influence these judgments is the topic of this paper. People's sensorial or psycho …