Optimizing the Parameters of Spark Plasma Sintering to Enhance the Hardness of MgO/TiC Composites

Table 6

ANOVA analysis for the mean of macrohardness.

ANOVA response table for macrohardness
Source	DF	Seq SS	Adj SS	Adj MS	F values	values
Sintering temperature (°C)	2	48.51	48.51	24.31	0.14	0.885
Sintering pressure (MPa)	2	11.71	11.71	5.91	0.04	0.970
Sintering time (min)	2	46.91	46.91	23.41	0.14	0.889
Error	2	369.91	369.91	185.01
Total	8	477.11
Ranking response table for macrohardness
Level		Sintering temperature (°C)		Sintering pressure (MPa)		Sintering time (min)
1		56.56		53.23		56.03
2		56.40		55.79		56.84
3		51.56		55.50		51.65
Delta		5.02		2.56		5.20
Rank		2		3		1