Intelligent process modeling and optimization of die-sinking electric discharge machining

Applied Soft Computing Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 2743-2755

  Joshi, S N ^a   Pande, S S ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GUWAHATI   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

Author keywords

Artificial neural networks (ANN); Electric discharge machining (EDM); Finite element method (FEM); Non dominated sorting genetic algorithm (NSGA); Process modeling and optimization; Scaled conjugate gradient algorithm (SCG)

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD (FEM); NON-DOMINATED SORTING GENETIC ALGORITHMS; PROCESS MODELING; SCALED CONJUGATE GRADIENT ALGORITHM;

CONJUGATE GRADIENT METHOD; ELECTRIC DISCHARGE MACHINING; ELECTRIC SPARKS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FORECASTING; HEAT FLUX; NEURAL NETWORKS; OPTIMIZATION; SOFT COMPUTING; SORTING;

GENETIC ALGORITHMS;

EID: 78751626570     PISSN: 15684946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asoc.2010.11.005     Document Type: Conference Paper

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