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One may consider the recent history of the weathering discipline (the past 100 years or so) as an evolution of weathering experiments. This evolution trends from simpler, single variable experiments toward more stochastic and broader experimental approaches. All the different major types of weathering experiments represent important tools engineers can use for answering different types of questions regarding product development. In 1926 British statistician R.A. Fischer began applying fractional factorial approaches to agricultural experiments. In the 1960's Professor Genichi Taguchi included modified fractional factorial experiment designs for characterizing manufacturing processes in his quality engineering philosophy. Today, we present an application of modified Taguchi approaches to weathering experiments.
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Sophistication of experimental designs for weathering research testing continues to evolve. The majority of current weathering experiments utilize simple designs which change few variables at a time.
One may consider the recent history of the weathering discipline (the past 100 years or so) as an evolution of weathering experiments. This evolution trends from simpler, single variable experiments...
8.1 Introduction Dr. Genichi Taguchi is a well-known Japanese quality expert who pioneered the idea of robust engineering (Taguchi and Wu, 1979; Taguchi, 1993). The robust engineering method is a...
This paper investigates the effects of weathering factors on moisture absorption of coatings and presents results from several projects including real-time and accelerated weathering studies of...
JET PROPULSION LABORATORY, NASA AND CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY - USA EXECUTIVE SUMMARY BACKGROUND In recent years, following several spacecraft battery anomalies, it was determined...
