The objective of this study is to evaluate an acoustic emission (AE) source characterization and fracture behavior of the SM45C steel by using back-propagation neural network (BPN). In previous research Ref. [8] about k-nearest neighbor classifier (k-...
The objective of this study is to evaluate an acoustic emission (AE) source characterization and fracture behavior of the SM45C steel by using back-propagation neural network (BPN). In previous research Ref. [8] about k-nearest neighbor classifier (k-NNC) continuously, we used K-means clustering method as an unsupervised learning method for obtained multi-variate AE main data sets, such as AE counts, energy, amplitude, risetime, duration and counts to peak. Similarly, we applied k-NNC and BPN as a supervised learning method for obtained multi-variate AE working data sets. According to the error of convergence for determinant criterion Wilk's λ, heuristic criteria D&B(Rij) and Tou values are discussed. As the results show that BPN produced some empty classes before or at the same time k-NNC detect fracture signals. And confirmed that could save trouble to AE signal processing if suitable error of convergence or acceptable encoding error gives to BPN.