The use of grey-based Taguchi methods to determine submerged arc welding process parameters in hardfacing

Journal of Materials Processing Technology

Volumn 128, Issue 1-3, 2002, Pages 1-6

  Tarng, Y S ^a   Juang, S C ^a   Chang, C H ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Grey relational analysis; Hardfacing; Optimization; Submerged arc welding; Taguchi method

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; HARD FACING; OPTIMIZATION; PROCESS ENGINEERING;

PROCESS PARAMETERS;

SUBMERGED ARC WELDING;

EID: 0037032155     PISSN: 09240136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0924-0136(01)01261-4     Document Type: Article

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