Industrial Engineering & Management

Yi Wang

Publications

• Research Article
  Study on Influence Factors of zinc layer thickness via Response Surface Method, Taguchi Method and Genetic Algorithm
  Author(s): Yi WangYi Wang
  
  Air knife is the key equipment to determine zinc coating thickness in the hot-dip galvanizing process. The process parameters related to air knife directly determine whether the desired coating thickness can be obtained. Therefore, setting the optimal process parameters is the key step to improve hot dip galvanizing process capability and zinc coating quality. Previous research on zinc layer thickness was based on the principle of physics and simulation to build models and few studies were carried about the interaction between parameters of air knife. In this research, three process parameters (stripe velocity, air pressure and air knife-stripe distance) were considered to optimize coating thickness by Response Surface Method (RSM), Taguchi method and Genetic Algorithm (GA). This paper firstly used response surface method (RSM) to establish polynomial model and discuss interaction eff.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2169-0316.1000245

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