Warpage and shrinkage control are important factors in proving the quality of thin-wall parts in injection modeling process. In the present paper, grey relational analysis was used in order to optimize these two parameters in manufacturing plastic bush of articulated garden tractor. The material used in the plastic bush is Derlin 500. The input parameters in the process were selected according ...

Considering the concept of clustering, the main idea of the present study is based on the fact that all stocks for choosing and ranking will not be necessarily in one cluster. Taking the mentioned point into account, this study aims at offering a new methodology for making decisions concerning the formation of a portfolio of stocks in the stock market. To meet this end, Multiple-Criteria Decisi...

Stainless steel (SS316L) is applied in numerous fields due to its intrinsic properties. In this study, micro-dimples were fabricated on SS316L. The effects of laser process parameters, such as frequency, average power, and pulse duration, the dimple diameter, distance, depth studied using an L9 orthogonal array. analysis variance (ANOVA) multi-objective optimization technique, principal-compone...

rapid technological and economic growth over the last several decades has changed human lives and made modern society face complex decision making problems. these kinds of problems are characterized by incommensurate and conflicting criteria or objectives such as cost, reliability, performance, safety and productivity. multi criteria decision making is an approach that can be used to deal compl...

Grey relational analysis (GRA) is a vital instrument suitable for optimal selection which can be used for modelling, forecasting and decision making. Grey theory gives reliable solution of systems in which the model is poor with little or incomplete information. This paper aims to use GRA for solving Multi Criteria Robot Selection Problems (MCRSPs). In this paper, GRA steps are implemented usin...

In this study, the application of gray relational analysis (GRA) and Taguchi method in multi-criteria process parameters selection of turning operation has been investigated. The process responses under study are material removal rate (MRR) and surface roughness (SR); in turn, the input parameters include cutting speed, feed rate, depth of cut and nose radius of the cutting tool. The proposed a...

Present study is focused on investigating the effect of various friction stir welding (FSW) process variables AA6061/Rutile composites quality. FSW was performed considering tool geometry (Tg), speed (Ws) and rotational (Ns) as ideal parameters for multi-response optimization. Experiments were designed based L9 orthogonal array. Analysis variance (ANOVA) utilized to evaluate effects these outpu...

This study investigated the optimization of three welding parameters (wire feed speed, arc voltage, and shielding gas flow rate) for SS 304H by using Taguchi based Grey relational analysis. In this research work, pure argon was used as shielding gas. Numbers of trials were performed as per L16 (4xx3) orthogonal array design and the mechanical quality such ultimate tensile strength, microhardnes...

pulsed current plasma arc welding (pcpaw) is one of the most widely used welding processes in sheet metal manufacturing industry. in any fusion arc welding process, the weld bead geometry plays an important role in determining the mechanical properties of the weld and hence quality of the weld.  moreover, the geometry of weld bead involves several simultaneously multiple quality characteristics...