INTEGRATION OF TAGUCHI DESIGN
OF EXPERIMENTS AND FINITE ELEMENT METHOD
FOR ROBUST DESIGN
A Masters Project Presented
by
SANKAR NELLIAN
DIRECTED BY : PROFESSOR IAN R GROSSE
Submitted to the Graduate School of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in partial
fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of
Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering
May 1996
Department of Mechanical Engineering