Special issue: Materials selection and design

International Journal of Materials and Structural Integrity 6(2-4) 2012

• Additive manufacturing technology and material selection for direct manufacture of products based on computer aided design geometric feature analysis
• Materials selection using COPRAS and COPRAS-G methods
• Digital logic and knowledge-based system for the automotive piston material selection
• Experimental and numerical investigation of grooves shape on the energy absorption of 6061-T6 aluminium tubes under axial compression
• Turbine blade material selection using fuzzy analytic network process
• Eco-material selection assisted with decision-making tools, guided by product's attributes; functionality and manufacturability
• The effect of N-doping on the electronic structure of graphene nanoribbon
• Material selection in biomedical applications: comparing the comprehensive VIKOR and goal programming models
• Material selection for light-weight naval crafts using the modified digital logic method: dealing with ranking abnormalities
• Selection of gear material using compromise ranking method

Additional Papers

• Effect of temperature and voltage on LED luminaries reliability
• Non-linear strain invariant failure approach for fibre reinforced composite materials
• A new silicon nanowire arrays solar cell based on gradient optical gaps nanometre thin film
• Numerical investigation on the thermal reliability and layout optimisation of printed circuit board level
• Modelling and optimisation of PMSM-precision reducer system with Modelica