PREDICTION OF FATIGUE CRACK GROWTH PROCESS VIA ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK TECHNIQUE

Authors

  • Konstantin N. Nechval
  • Nicholas A. Nechval
  • Irina Bausova
  • Daina Skiltere
  • Vladimir F. Strelchonok

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.47839/ijc.5.3.406

Keywords:

Artificial neural network, fatigue crack growth, on-line monitoring

Abstract

Failure analysis and prevention are important to all of the engineering disciplines, especially for the aerospace industry. Aircraft accidents are remembered by the public because of the unusually high loss of life and broad extent of damage. In this paper, the artificial neural network (ANN) technique for the data processing of on-line fatigue crack growth monitoring is proposed after analyzing the general technique for fatigue crack growth data. A model for predicting the fatigue crack growth by ANN is presented, which does not need all kinds of materials and environment parameters, and only needs to measure the relation between a (length of crack) and N (cyclic times of loading) in-service. The feasibility of this model was verified by some examples. It makes up the inadequacy of data processing for current technique and on-line monitoring. Hence it has definite realistic meaning for engineering application.

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2014-08-01

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Nechval, K. N., Nechval, N. A., Bausova, I., Skiltere, D., & Strelchonok, V. F. (2014). PREDICTION OF FATIGUE CRACK GROWTH PROCESS VIA ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK TECHNIQUE. International Journal of Computing, 5(3), 21-32. https://doi.org/10.47839/ijc.5.3.406

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