Abstract

Response surface designs can be classified, according to the shape of the experimental region, into spherical designs and cuboidal designs. Among the central composite design(CCD)s and the Box-Behnken design(BBD)s that are popular in practice, when the number of factors is k, spherical designs are tile CCDs with the axial value being $\sqrt{\textit{k}}$ and the BBDs, and cuboidal designs are the CCDs with the axial value being 1. With the CCDs having $\sqrt{\textit{k}}$ as the axial value, the radius of the experimental region varies with number of factors, but these designs are the 5-level designs. With the BBDs that are 3-level designs, the radius of the experimental region does not vary with the number of factors. In this article, we propose tile 3-level spherical designs which are constructed so that tile radius of the experimental region varies with the number of factors.

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