Selection and application of building material suppliers based on the 2-tuple linguistic neutrosophic number combined grey relational analysis method

Abstract

The quality of building materials will affect the implementation effect of construction projects. To ensure the service capacity of building materials, it is necessary to do a good job in selecting suppliers. In the specific evaluation of building material suppliers, after evaluation, suppliers with poor quality are excluded to ensure the quality of material supply, reasonably improve the construction effect of the building project, meet the construction needs of the building project, and improve the quality of the building project. The selection and application of building material suppliers (BMSs) is a multiple-attribute group decision-making (MAGDM) technique. In this study, the 2-tuple linguistic neutrosophic number combined grey relational analysis (2TLNN-CGRA) technique is constructed based on the classical grey relational analysis (GRA) and 2-tuple linguistic neutrosophic sets (2TLNNSs). Finally, a numerical example for building material supplier selection was constructed and some comparisons is constructed to illustrate the 2TLNN-CGRA technique. The main contribution of this study is constructed: (1) the 2TLNN-CGRA technique is implemented to cope with the MAGDM under 2TLNSs; (2) the 2TLNN-CGRA technique is implemented in line with the 2TLNN Hamming distance (2TLNNHD) and 2TLNN Euclidean distance (2TLNNED) simultaneously under 2TLNSs; (3) the numerical example for building material supplier selection is implemented to show the 2TLNN-CGRA technique; and (4) some efficient comparative studies are constructed with several existing decision techniques.