Journal article
Holistic Approach to Decision Making in the Formulation and Selection of Anti-Icing Products
Journal of cold regions engineering, Vol.26(3), pp.101-117
09/01/2012
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/120976
Abstract
AbstractTo effectively fight snow storms in the challenging funding environment, many maintenance agencies in North America have started to produce their own anti-icing liquids, instead of procuring commercial anti-icers. This work demonstrates a systematic approach to collaborative, data-driven, and multicriteria decision making by conducting a set of laboratory tests to assess twenty blended chloride-based anti-icing formulations. The laboratory data were then used to establish predictive models correlating the multiple design parameters with the anti-icer performance and effects or with an anti-icer composite index. The authors used artificial neural networks for modeling and examined anti-icer performance (characteristic temperature and ice-melting capacity at 30 and 15°F (-1.1 and −9.4°C), respectively) and effects (splitting tensile strength of concrete after ten freeze-thaw cycles and corrosivity to mild steel) as a function of the formulation design. The anti-icer composite index was calculated for four different user priority scenarios (cost-first, performance-first, impacts-first, or a balanced approach), each of which placed a different set of decision weights on various target attributes. Three-dimensional response surfaces were then constructed to illustrate such predicted correlations and to guide the direction for formulation improvements.
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- Title
- Holistic Approach to Decision Making in the Formulation and Selection of Anti-Icing Products
- Creators
- Xianming Shi - Montana State Univ. Corrosion & Sustainable Infrastructure Laboratory, Western Transportation Institute, , P.O. Box 174250, Bozeman, MT 59717-4250; and Civil Engineering Dept., Montana State Univ., Bozeman, MT 59717-3900 (corresponding author). E-mailMichelle Akin - Montana State Univ. M.Sc., Western Transportation Institute, , P.O. Box 174250, Bozeman, MT 59717-4250
- Publication Details
- Journal of cold regions engineering, Vol.26(3), pp.101-117
- Academic Unit
- Civil and Environmental Engineering, Department of
- Publisher
- American Society of Civil Engineers
- Identifiers
- 99900612704301842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article