...Arezki Sarri; Mehena Oualit; Abdelhamid Cherfi The aim of the present work is to carry out a technical study on blast furnace slag-based alkali-activated binders, using the design of experiments methodology. A four-factor, mixed-level (two and three) full factorial design was employed to evaluate...

... are discussed to highlight the need for carefully designed experiments and rigorous analysis of experimentally obtained data to yield unambiguous findings. By examining in depth a few case studies we demonstrate that the development of robust and innovative experimentation is crucial for the advancement...