Thermal and Thermomechanical Responses Prediction of a Steel Ladle Using a Back-Propagation Artificial Neural Network Combining Multiple Orthogonal Arrays

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title = "Thermal and Thermomechanical Responses Prediction of a Steel Ladle Using a Back-Propagation Artificial Neural Network Combining Multiple Orthogonal Arrays",
abstract = "To facilitate industrial vessel lining design for various material properties andlining configurations, a method, being composed of the back-propagationartificial neural network (BP-ANN) with multiple orthogonal arrays, isdeveloped, and a steel ladle from secondary steel metallurgy is chosen for acase study. Ten geometrical and material property variations of this steelladle lining are selected as inputs for the BP-ANN model. A total of 160lining configurations nearly evenly distributed within the ten variations spaceare designed for finite element (FE) simulations in terms of five orthogonalarrays. Leave-One-Out cross validation within various combinations oforthogonal arrays determines 7 nodes in the hidden layer, a minimum ratioof 16 between dataset size and number of input nodes, and a Bayesianregularization training algorithm as the optimal definitions for the BP-ANNmodel. The thermal and thermomechanical responses of two optimal liningconcepts from a previous study using the Taguchi method are predicted withacceptable accuracy.",
author = "Aidong Hou and Shengli Jin and Harald Harmuth and Dietmar Gruber",
year = "2019",
month = apr,
day = "29",
doi = "10.1002/srin.201900116",
language = "English",
volume = "2019",
journal = "Steel research international",
issn = "0177-4832",
publisher = "Verlag Stahleisen GmbH",

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T1 - Thermal and Thermomechanical Responses Prediction of a Steel Ladle Using a Back-Propagation Artificial Neural Network Combining Multiple Orthogonal Arrays

AU - Hou, Aidong

AU - Jin, Shengli

AU - Harmuth, Harald

AU - Gruber, Dietmar

PY - 2019/4/29

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AB - To facilitate industrial vessel lining design for various material properties andlining configurations, a method, being composed of the back-propagationartificial neural network (BP-ANN) with multiple orthogonal arrays, isdeveloped, and a steel ladle from secondary steel metallurgy is chosen for acase study. Ten geometrical and material property variations of this steelladle lining are selected as inputs for the BP-ANN model. A total of 160lining configurations nearly evenly distributed within the ten variations spaceare designed for finite element (FE) simulations in terms of five orthogonalarrays. Leave-One-Out cross validation within various combinations oforthogonal arrays determines 7 nodes in the hidden layer, a minimum ratioof 16 between dataset size and number of input nodes, and a Bayesianregularization training algorithm as the optimal definitions for the BP-ANNmodel. The thermal and thermomechanical responses of two optimal liningconcepts from a previous study using the Taguchi method are predicted withacceptable accuracy.

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JO - Steel research international

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