A Howell design of side s and order 2n, or more briefly an H(s, 2n), is an s x s array in which each cell is either empty or contains an unordered pair of elements from some (2n)-set V such that (1) every element of V occurs in precisely one cell of each row and each column, and (2) every unordered pair of elements from V is in at most one cell of the array. It follows immediately from the defi...

A general method for constructing asymmetric orthogonal arrays of arbitrary strength is proposed. Application of this method is made to obtain several new families of tight asymmetric orthogonal arrays of strength three. A procedure for replacing a column with 2 symbols in an orthogonal array of strength three by several 2-symbol columns, without disturbing the orthogonality of the array, leads...

In order to produce any product with desired quality by machining, proper selection of process parameters is essential. This can be accomplished by Full Factorial method. The aim of the present work is to investigate the effect of process parameter on surface finish and material removal rate (MRR) to obtain the optimal setting of these process parameters and the analysis of variance is also use...

We have performed a shape optimization of the disc in an industrial double-eccentric butterfly valve using the effect analysis of design variables to enhance the valve performance. For the optimization, we select three performance quantities such as pressure drop, maximum stress, and mass (weight) as the responses and three dimensions regarding the disc shape as the design variables. Subsequent...

Three-factor interaction for the two-level, three-level, and four-level factorial designs was studied. A new technique and formula based on the coefficients of orthogonal polynomial contrast were proposed to calculate the effect of the three-factor interaction The results show that the proposed technique was in agreement with the least squares method. The advantages of the new technique are 1) ...

This paper describes the application of a combined orthogonal array design and overlapping resolution mapping to the optimization of miceller electrokinetic chromatography for the separation of 10 substituted benzenes. The most important factors were first determined according to an OA16(2(15)) through 16 pre-designed experiments; a second set of experiments was carried out according to a trian...

Mixed orthogonal arrays of strength two and size s are constructed by grouping points in the finite projective geometry . can be partitioned into   1, PG mn s   1, PG mn s       1 1 mn n s s         –1 n -flats such that each   –1 n flat is associated with a point in . An orthogonal array  1, n PG m s        1 1 mn n mn s s n s L s         can be constructed ...

In this paper, the problem of target detection in phased-MIMO radars is considered and target detection performance of phased-MIMO radars is compared with MIMO and phased-array radars. Phased-MIMO radars combine advantages of the MIMO and phased-array radars. In these radars, the transmit array will be partitioned into a number of subarrays that are allowed to overlap and each subarray transmit...