Research Article
Optimizing the Parameters of Spark Plasma Sintering to Enhance the Hardness of MgO/TiC Composites
Table 5
Results of experiments sorted by sintering variables for mean macrohardness and signal-to-noise.
| Experimental run | Sintering factors | Responses | Sintering temperature | Sintering pressure | Sintering time | Mean macrohardness | Mean S/N ratio | (°C) | (MPa) | (min) | (HR) | (dB) |
| 1 | 500 | 35 | 15 | 62.191 | 35.8747 | 2 | 500 | 45 | 20 | 50.632 | 34.0883 | 3 | 500 | 55 | 25 | 56.853 | 35.0957 | 4 | 550 | 35 | 20 | 59.623 | 35.5074 | 5 | 550 | 45 | 25 | 60.191 | 35.5898 | 6 | 550 | 55 | 15 | 49.373 | 33.8691 | 7 | 600 | 35 | 25 | 37.881 | 31.5673 | 8 | 600 | 45 | 15 | 56.526 | 35.0445 | 9 | 600 | 55 | 20 | 60.254 | 35.5996 |
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