Author(s):
1. Dušan Petković, Univerzitet u Nišu, Mašinski fakultet, Serbia
2. Miloš Madić, Serbia
3. Goran Radenković, Univerzitet u Nišu, Mašinski fakultet, Serbia
4. Predrag Živković, Univerzitet u Nišu, Mašinski fakultet, Serbia
5. Mladen Tomić, The School of Higher Technical Professional Education, Niš, Serbia

Abstract:
Materials play an important role in engineering design. Selection of the most suitable material involves the study of a large number of factors, such as thermal, mechanical, electrical, chemical and physical properties as well as machinability, formability and weldability of available materials. Heat exchanger is a design part which takes heat from one fluid and passes it to a second. Selection of the most suitable material for a heat exchanger is a multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) problem with diverse objectives. This paper describes the use of recently developed MCDM methods for selecting the most suitable material for a heat exchanger. Results revealed that naval brass UNS C46400 is the most preferable material for this application.

Key words:
Material selection,Heat exchangers,Multi-criteria decision making

Thematic field:
Production and Computer-Aided Technologies

Date of abstract submission:
06.03.2015.

Conference:
12th International conference on accomplishments in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering and Information Technology (DEMI 2015)

Final paper