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Recent advancements have demonstrated that expected hypervolume-based geometrical acquisition functions outperform other multiobjective optimisation algorithms, such as Thompson Sampling Efficient Multiobjective optimisation and pareto efficient global optimisation (parEGO), in both performance and speed. This study evaluates several leading multiobjective BO acquisition functions\u2013namely, parallel expected hypervolume improvement (qEHVI), noisy qEHVI, parallel parEGO, and parallel noisy parEGO (qNparEGO)\u2013in optimizing the physical properties of multi-component alloys. Our findings highlight the superior performance of the qEHVI acquisition function in identifying the optimal Pareto front across 1-, 2-, and 3-objective aluminum alloy optimisation problems, all within a constrained evaluation budget and reasonable computational cost. Furthermore, we explore the impact of various surrogate model optimisation methods from both computational cost and efficiency perspectives. 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