Table 1.
Applications of MADM methods for material selection in different areas.
Fig 1.
The flowchart of proposed novel hybrid method.
Fig 2.
Causal influence diagrams for the dimensions and criteria.
Table 2.
Hierarchical structure of criteria for material selection.
Table 3.
The averaged direct-relation matrix for criteria.
Table 4.
The averaged direct-relation matrix for the dimensions.
Table 5.
Sum of the influences given and received regarding criteria.
Table 6.
Sum of the influences given and received regarding the dimensions.
Table 7.
A decision matrix for five material alternatives.
Table 8.
Ranking of five material alternatives.
Fig 3.
The closeness indices of the four methods.
Table 9.
The 19 experiments of sensitivity analysis.
Fig 4.
Sensitivity analysis.