A hybrid of back propagation neural network and genetic algorithm for optimization of injection molding process parameters

Materials and Design

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 3457-3464

  Yin, Fei ^a   Mao, Huajie ^a   Hua, Lin ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

A. Polymers; C. Moulding; F. Defects

Indexed keywords

A. POLYMERS; BACK PROPAGATION NEURAL NETWORKS; BP ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BP NEURAL NETWORKS; C. MOULDING; CLAMP FORCE; COOLING TIME; DESIGN VARIABLES; F. DEFECTS; FINITE ELEMENT SIMULATIONS; GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHM; HYBRID OPTIMIZATION METHOD; INJECTION MOLDING PROCESS; MATHEMATICAL RELATIONSHIP; MELT TEMPERATURE; MOLD TEMPERATURES; MULTI-OBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION MODELS; OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; OPTIMIZATION GOALS; OPTIMIZATION METHOD; ORTHOGONAL EXPERIMENT; PACKING PRESSURE; PLASTIC INJECTION MOLDING; PROCESS PARAMETERS; WARPAGES;

BACKPROPAGATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DEFECTS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION; INJECTION MOLDING; MANUFACTURE; MOLDS; MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POLYMERS;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 79953161387     PISSN: 02641275     EISSN: 18734197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.matdes.2011.01.058     Document Type: Article

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