An optimise drilling process for an aircraft composite structure using design of experiments

Scientific Research and Essays

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1109-1116

  Mohd Ariffin, M K A ^a   Mohd Ali, M I ^a   Sapuan, S M ^a   Ismail, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Composite; Design of experiment; Drilling; Optimization

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350161833     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19922248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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