Parameters optimization of laser brazing in crimping butt using Taguchi and BPNN-GA

Optics and Lasers in Engineering

Volumn 67, Issue , 2015, Pages 94-104

  Rong, Youming ^a   Zhang, Zhen ^a,b   Zhang, Guojun ^a   Yue, Chen ^a   Gu, Yafei ^a   Huang, Yu ^a   Wang, Chunming ^a   Shao, Xinyu ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Bead geometry; BPNN GA; Crimping butt; Laser brazing; Taguchi method

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY; BACKPROPAGATION ALGORITHMS; BRAZING; EXPERIMENTS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; GEOMETRY; NEURAL NETWORKS; TAGUCHI METHODS; WELDING; WIRE;

BACK-PROPAGATION NEURAL NETWORKS; BEAD GEOMETRY; CRIMPING BUTT; LASER BRAZING; PARAMETERS OPTIMIZATION; PROCESS PARAMETERS; STATISTICAL DESIGN; WELDING PARAMETERS;

HEAT AFFECTED ZONE;

EID: 84912082946     PISSN: 01438166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.optlaseng.2014.10.009     Document Type: Article

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