CURISITY

Husam Abdulkarem Abdulrazzaq Al-Qadasi (2016911255)

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Advaced Material Selection Techniques
There are many analytical methods of materials selection. However in this homework I will
mention five of them and I will provide some comments about two of them.

 Cost vs Performance:
- Because COST is so important in selecting materials, it is logical to consider cost at the
start of the material selection process.
- The final choice is a trade -off between COST and PERFORMANCE,
- Cost is a most useful parameter when it can be related to a critical material property
that controls the performance of the design.
- It is also very important to emphasise that there are many ways to compute costs such
as:
o Total life-cycle cost : it consist of initial cost of the material and manufacturing
cost as will as running and operating cost.
o Cost per unit property method : one property stands out as the most critical
service requirement. In this case, it is possible to estimate how much various
materials to provide this requirement will cost.
 Weighted Property Method:
- In this method each material requirement (or property) is assigned a certain weight
(which depends on its importance to the performance of the design).
- This method attempts to:
o Quantify how important each desired requirement is by determining a weighting
factor (α)
o Quantify how well a candidate material satisfies each requirement by determining
a scaling factor (β).
 Value Analysis.
 Failure Analysis.
 Benefit -Cost Analysis.