Experimental and Statistical Study of the Optimization of Fire retardants in a Formulations of Waterborne Intumescent Fire-resistant Coatings for Steel Structure Using Uniform Experimental Design

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10.2991/iceep-18.2018.220How to use a DOI?

Keywords

waterborne intumescent fire-resistant coatings; steel structure; statistical software; design of experiments; uniform design.

Abstract

This paper presents a uniform design methodology for computer aided experimental design for intumescent fire-resistant coating (IFRC) formulations, exemplifies the benefits of using experimental design together with statistical software to facilitate the optimization of fire retardants in a formulation of an IFRC for structural steelworks. By applying a statistical multivariate design for the screening experiments, many intumescent fire retardants were evaluated in comparatively few experiments. In this work, prior information has been used in the form of a model, based on historical experiments. A uniform design criterion is used to design a few additional experiments so that the resulting model can have an acceptable prediction power. A confirmatory experiment step is shown that a design which uses the uniform design methodology taking advantage of the experimental data collected from the design of experiments that using fewer trials gives a model with equivalent prediction capability. This can be critical where the practical approach which often requires a considerable amount of experimental work and may be costly and time consuming to perform.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Jian Hu
AU  - Chunling Hu
PY  - 2018/09
DA  - 2018/09
TI  - Experimental and Statistical Study of the Optimization of Fire retardants in a Formulations of Waterborne Intumescent Fire-resistant Coatings for Steel Structure Using Uniform Experimental Design
BT  - Proceedings of the 2018 7th International Conference on Energy and Environmental Protection (ICEEP 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1244
EP  - 1248
SN  - 2352-5401
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DO  - 10.2991/iceep-18.2018.220
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