Axiomatic Design Using Multi-criteria Decision Making for Material Selection in Mechanical Design: Application in Different Scenarios

In mechanical design, the selection of material alternatives has become a pressing issue due to the progressive growth in the complexity of mechanical systems in search of a continuous increase in performance and the presence of a wide range of possible materials. Moreover, there are many requests for projects, which makes the choice of material a decisive activity for the success or failure of the project itself. Multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) describes the systematic approaches developed to evaluate alternatives in terms of multiple and often conflicting objectives and identify the cluster of optimal choices. Several methodological approaches combining axiomatic design and MCDM methods have been proposed in the literature. However, it is only in recent years that this methodological combination has found fertile ground as a decision-support tool with interesting applications in the field of material selection. This paper aims to analyze the current state of the art in integrating of axiomatic design and MCDM methods considering different scenarios of the available information in material selection in the field of mechanical design.