The material plays an important role in an engineering design process. The suitable material selection for a particular product is one of the vital tasks for the designers. In order to fulfil the product’s end requirements, designers need to analyze the performance of various materials and spot suitable materials with precise functionalities. Due to the presence of large number of materials wit...

The aim of the study is developing a fuzzy decision model to select a student from an Engineering college who is eligible for All Round Excellence Award for the year 2004-05 by taking subjective judgments of decision makers into consideration. Here Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process (FAHP) approach and (Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solutions (TOPSIS) methods are proposed....

A systematic study of the optional maintenance strategies of the Transformer is conducted and a set of general factors which should be considered in the maintenance strategies is established. A Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process (FAHP) based on the goal programming is proposed in view of the defects of the traditional Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process (FAHP), and the specific application process o...

In this study, a new modeling method based on trapezoidal fuzzy number FAHP has been proposed to solve the problem of risk element transmission in enterprise project evaluation chain. We firstly put forward enterprise project chain risk element transmission and constructs enterprise project chain risk element transmission tetrahedron model and then proposed the theory of enterprise project eval...

In order to safeguard the safety of passengers and reduce maintenance costs, it is necessary to analyze and evaluate the security risk of the Railway Signal System. However, the conventional Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy Process (FAHP) can not describe the fuzziness and randomness of the judgment, accurately, and once the fuzzy sets are described using subjection degree function, the concept of fu...

A ship’s crew plays an important role in the maritime transportation sector and their performance is paramont in the shipping industry. On this account, an impartial evaluation of the crew’s performance is an important issue. In this paper, the ship officer’s performance evaluation problem is studied. The performance evaluation criteria that shipping companies take into account are determined a...

Emergency Department (ED) crowding is a major problem in the U.S. like in many other countries worldwide. This problem is adversely affecting the safety of the patients who rely on receiving a timely treatment in EDs. As a part of solving this problem, a triage process is utilized. Triage is a pre-hospital process by which patients are sorted according to the severity of their illnesses or inju...