A genetic algorithm with design of experiments approach to predict the optimal process parameters for FDM

16th Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium, SFF 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 150-161

  Arumaikkannu, G ^a   Uma Maheshwaraa, N ^a   Gowri, S ^a  

^a ANNA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POROSITY; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

AIR-GAPS; FITNESS FUNCTIONS; OPTIMAL PROCESS; OPTIMAL SETS; PROCESS PARAMETERS; QUALITY CHARACTERISTIC; RESPONSE SURFACE METHODOLOGY; SLICE THICKNESS;

FORECASTING;

EID: 60749093045     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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