DETERMINATION OF MATERIAL FOR SHAFT DESIGN USING TOPSIS BASED TAGUCHI METHOD

The shaft is a mechanical accessory where many applications like machines, automobiles, aircrafts etc., must have a proper design of the shaft, in - order to have the efficient transmission of power from one element to another. For the design of shaft an appropriate range of evaluation, general product form and processing methods for material must be made. The selection of material should be done by using multiple attribute decis ion methods (MADM). In this paper, Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) based Taguchi method is proposed in order to decide a suitable material by considering different attributes and graphical representations are made fo r different attributes verse materials and vice versa