Uncertainties exist in criteria for performing elastic-plastic fracture mechanics analysis of nuclear pipings. In this thesis, fuzzy theory is adopted to deal with the uncertainty of a fracture criterion and neural network theory is used to deal with ...
Uncertainties exist in criteria for performing elastic-plastic fracture mechanics analysis of nuclear pipings. In this thesis, fuzzy theory is adopted to deal with the uncertainty of a fracture criterion and neural network theory is used to deal with the discordance of the several fracture criteria. The objective of this thesis is to develop fuzzy-neural network expert system for dealing with such uncertainty.
This thesis is consisted of 4 parts; application of fuzzy theory, application of neural network theory, development of fuzzy -neural network expert system and case studies. The fuzziness at the boundaries of the criteria is quantified by the fuzzy for four fracture criteria of nuclear piping. Evaluation on fracture behavior is performed by the learning technique and the pattern matching of the neural network when the results are different each other. Finally the expert system software was developed by Visual C++, and case studies were performed to demonstrate the usefulness.