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Estimation of Collapse Moment for Wall Thinned Elbows Using Fuzzy Neural Networks

  • Na, Man-Gyun (Dept. of Nuclear Engineering, Chosun University) ;
  • Kim, Jin-Weon (Dept. of Nuclear Engineering, Chosun University) ;
  • Shin, Sun-Ho (Dept. of Nuclear Engineering, Chosun University) ;
  • Kim, Koung-Suk (Dept. of Mechanical Information Engineering, Chosun University) ;
  • Kang, Ki-Soo (Dept. of Mechanical Information Engineering, Chosun University)
  • Published : 2004.08.30
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Abstract

In this work, the collapse moment due to wall-thinning defects is estimated by using fuzzy neural networks. The developed fuzzy neural networks have been applied to the numerical data obtained from the finite element analysis. Principal component analysis is used to preprocess the input signals into the fuzzy neural network to reduce the sensitivity to the input change and the fuzzy neural networks are trained by using the data set prepared for training (training data) and verified by using another data set different (independent) from the training data. Also, two fuzzy neural networks are trained for two data sets divided into the two classes of extrados and intrados defects, which is because they have different characteristics. The relative 2-sigma errors of the estimated collapse moment are 3.07% for the training data and 4.12% for the test data. It is known from this result that the fuzzy neural networks are sufficiently accurate to be used in the wall-thinning monitoring of elbows.

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