THE EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN FOR BeO IRAADIATION EXPERIMENTS ORNL 41-8 AND ORNL 41-9

Technical Report · Wed Jul 18 00:00:00 EDT 1962

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/4805634· OSTI ID:4805634

Gardiner, D. A.

The experimental plan for irradiating BeO pellets in Experiments ORNL 41- 8 and ORNL 41-9 was chosen in accordance with the principles of experimental design. The design is known by statisticians as a 2/sup 5/ factorial experiment confound'' in six replications. Five variables---size, density, grain size, temperature and time--are controlled at two levels to form the basic 2i factorial experiment. The sixth variable, neutron flux, is introduced by confounding on higher-order interactions. An explanation is presented in nontechnical language the means by which the aims of the experimenters and the physical conditions affecting the experiment were utilized in constructing the experimental design. (auth)

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-26
• NSA Number: NSA-16-024243
• OSTI ID: 4805634
• Report Number(s): ORNL-3310
• Resource Relation: Other Information: Orig. Receipt Date: 31-DEC-62
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

METALS, CERAMICS, AND OTHER MATERIALS
BERYLLIUM OXIDES
DENSITY
GRAIN SIZE
INTERACTIONS
IRRADIATION
MATERIALS TESTING
NEUTRON BEAMS
NEUTRON FLUX
ORNL
PELLETS
PLANNING
STATISTICS
TEMPERATURE
VOLUME