... factor settings for minimum wear rate. 10 01 2008 13 07 2008 02 06 2009 alumina ceramics fly ash genetic algorithms glass fibre reinforced plastics neural nets organic-inorganic hybrid materials particle reinforced composites silicon compounds Taguchi methods wear...

... ratio, maximum depth ratio and indenter radius. The Taguchi method was used to quantify their effects and to determine their optimum values. Using signal-to-noise ratio calculated from the error in the indentation tensile properties, the criterions and the optimum values for the experimental parameters...