Prediction of pulsed-laser powder deposits' shape profiles using a back-propagation artificial neural network

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part B: Journal of Engineering Manufacture

Volumn 222, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1567-1576

  Mahapatra, M M ^a   Li, L ^a  

^a Utah State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial neural network (ANN); Back propagation network (BPN); Deposition shape profiles; Nd Yag laser; Pulsed laser superalloy powder depositions (PLPD); Soft computing

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; BACKPROPAGATION; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; DEPOSITION; FORECASTING; GEOMETRY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; LASERS; METROPOLITAN AREA NETWORKS; NEODYMIUM; NEODYMIUM LASERS; NEURAL NETWORKS; NUMERICAL METHODS; POWDER METALS; POWDERS; REINFORCEMENT; RESIDUAL STRESSES; SOFT COMPUTING; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS; SUPERALLOYS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; THERMOMECHANICAL TREATMENT;

ACCURATE PREDICTIONS; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK (ANN); BACK-PROPAGATION NETWORK (BPN); CLAD LAYERS; GEOMETRY PARAMETERS; LASER POWDERS; MAPPING TECHNIQUES; MODELLING METHODOLOGIES; MODELLING TECHNIQUES; MULTIVARIABLE; ND-YAG LASER; POWDER FEEDING; PROCESS PARAMETERS; PROCESS USING; PULSED-LASER SUPERALLOY POWDER DEPOSITIONS (PLPD); ROUGH ESTIMATIONS; SHAPE BOUNDARIES; THERMO MECHANICALS; THERMOMECHANICAL ANALYSES; THERMOMECHANICAL MODELS; TIME CONSUMING;

PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS;

EID: 57649230976     PISSN: 09544054     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1243/09544054JEM1228     Document Type: Article

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