carbon nanotube, a new structure of carbon element, is composed of graphene sheets rolled into closed concentric cylinders with diameter of the order of nanometers and length of micrometers. liquid arc discharge was used for fabrication of carbon nanotubes, and subsequently a modified acid treatment method applied for purification stage. a statistical design of experimental (doe) (taguchi metho...

Robust design uses the parameter design approach of Genichi Taguchi to optimize designs of products and processes with the objective of building in insensitivity to noise. Noise is any kind of uncontrolled variation in the environment of operation of the product or process that could affect performance. If we recognize how variation in the environment (e.g., energy source, raw materials, heat a...

This report presents an experiment comparing two lightweight methodologies. The objective of the experiment was to assess extreme programming seen as a design-less process and an agile methodology based on design. The experiment ran in a real environment. Twenty teams produced 20 systems, from scratch to the final product, in a period of one semester. They attended 4 clients. The factors of the...

This paper presents an experimental design approach to the process parameter optimization for compocasting of A356-SiCp composites. Toward this end, parameters of stirring temperature, stirring time, stirring speed and SiC content were chosen and three levels of these parameters were considered. The D-optimal design of experiment (DODE) was employed for experimental design and analysis of resul...