Backpropagation neural networks performs computer simulations that have the potential to find the same patterns that fatigue practitioners recognize to relate experimental results to fatigue life prediction. This potential was used to construct neural...
Backpropagation neural networks performs computer simulations that have the potential to find the same patterns that fatigue practitioners recognize to relate experimental results to fatigue life prediction. This potential was used to construct neural networks to recognize the relation between X-ray diffraction half-value breadth ratio B/Bo, fractal dimension D_f, stress amplitude Δσ, main crack length α, (Δσ/σ_ys)^ma^n and da/dN, N/N_f for Al 2024-T3 alloy. Learning and generalization of neural networks was optimized by floating rate method. This study shows that neural networks has ability to predict fatigue crack growth rate and life on data of unlearned experimental condition.