Abstract: One perspective of a design process in the engineering design community is that it is largely a process marked and defined by a series of decisions. The fundamental assumption in most developed ...

Abstract: Earlier researchers have demonstrated that the compaction effort and water content, type of soil and mineralogy, void ratio, fabric, and stress history influence the soil-water characteristics curve (SWCC) of fine-grained ...

Abstract: In this paper, the problem of selecting from among a set of alternatives using multiple, potentially conflicting criteria is discussed. A number of approaches are commonly used to make these ...