An Experimental Approach for Optimizing Coating Parameters of Electroless Ni-P-Cu Coating Using Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm

Table 1

Main coating parameters with their levels.

Design Factors	Unit	Levels
		1	2	3
Concentration of source of nickel (nickel sulphate solution)	g/L	25	30	35
Concentration of reducing agent (sodium hypophosphite solution)	g/L	10	15	20
Concentration of source of copper (copper sulphate)	g/L	0.3	0.5	0.7
Heat treatment temperature	°C	300	400	500