3n-p Fractional Factorial Design Excluded Some Debarred Combinations

When fractional factorial experiments contain some infeasible treatment combinations called debarred combinations we should construct experimental designs so that those debarred combinations are to be excluded by selecting defining contrasts appropriately. By applying Franklin(1995)'s procedure for selecting defining contrasts to Cheng and Li(1993)'s method this paper presents a method of selecting defining contrasts to construct orthogonal 3-level fractional factorial experiments which exclude some debarred combinations.