The use of statistics in the daily operation of test laboratories tends to be very formal. Six Sigma for Design, Design of Experiments, Gauge R&R, and ANOVA may be used to help design and analyze product and process characteristics in research labs. The use of statistical approaches can provide important preventive actions since many of the common SPC (Statistical Process Control) tools can det...

• We conducted a multiphase series of laboratory experiments to explore the adaptive optics compensation of a laser beam distorted by strong thermal blooming. Our experimental approach was to create on a small, low-power beam the same phase distortion that would be experienced by a large, high-power beam propagating through the atmosphere and to apply phase compensation via deformable mirrors. ...

plastic recycling is the process of recovering scrap or waste plastics and reprocessing thematerial into useful products that sometimes differ completely in form from their original state. an importantissue in plastic recovery and recycling is that plastic waste usually contains a variety of plastics that differ intheir physical and chemical properties. separation of recovered plastics into dis...