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Taguchi design of experiments (DOE) method was employed to determine the optimum value of controllable factors of the process. It minimizes the number of experimental runs and maintains the quality of the desired product. In this paper, high density Polyethylene and poly propylene/marble dust composite (HDPE-PP/MDC) was prepared using single screw extruder machine. Marble dust is used as a filler as it is waste material of marble industries. The loadings of filler, binder, plasticizer and lubricant were varied from 14–30, 2–4, 2–5 to 2–6%, respectively. The effects of different loadings on the compressive strength of HDPE-PP/MD composite were studied, and the results were optimized by using Taguchi’s design of experiment (DOE) method. It is concluded that the filler and the binder loading play significant role in the enhancement of compressive strength of the composite.
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Rajput, N.S., Shukla, D.D., Ishan, L., Sharma, T.K. (2018). Optimization of Compressive Strength of Polymer Composite Brick Using Taguchi Method. In: Pant, M., Ray, K., Sharma, T., Rawat, S., Bandyopadhyay, A. (eds) Soft Computing: Theories and Applications. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 584. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5699-4_42
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