Applying neural networks in the final thickness optimisation of thin hydroformed part

ECCOMAS 2004 - European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages

  Revuelta, Alejandro ^a   Larkiola, Jari ^a  

^a VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Design of experiments; Enetic algorithms; Hydroforming; Neural networks; Optimisation

Indexed keywords

HYDROFORMING; INITIAL THICKNESS; MATHEMATICAL PROBLEMS; META MODEL; OPTIMISATION PROBLEMS; OPTIMISATION PROCEDURES; OPTIMISATIONS; SECOND-ORDER POLYNOMIAL;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; OPTIMIZATION;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 84893433857     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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