Abstract: A method for assisting a user in selecting a design of experiment. The method includes obtaining a plurality of attributes associated with a plurality of experimental designs. A series of questions is presented to the user directed to objectives of the design of experiment. The user responds to the questions and one or more user-selected attributes are determined in response to the user's answers to the questions. The process selects or de-selects one or more of the experimental designs in response to the user-selected attributes and notifies the user of the selected experimental designs.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 14, 1999
Date of Patent:
September 10, 2002
Assignee:
General Electric Company
Inventors:
Mohamed Ahmed Ali, Ahmed Flasser, Arlie Russell Martin
Abstract: A brush seal for reducing leakage of a fluid across a pressure drop in a machine. The brush seal includes a bristle holder attachable to the machine and filament-yarn bristles secured to the bristle holder. In one example the bristles are filaments of an aramid filament yarn, and the machine is a hydrogen-cooled electric generator.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 17, 2000
Date of Patent:
June 18, 2002
Assignee:
General Electric Company
Inventors:
Mahmut Faruk Aksit, Osman Saim Dinc, Robert Russell Mayer
Abstract: A method is provided for treating anti-corrosive steel surfaces, such an epoxy-coated ship's hull, in an environmentally improved manner, with an epoxy-silicone-adhesive paint, as a tiecoat, to provide for the subsequent application of silicone foul release coatings.