Characterization of Superplastic Deformation Behavior for a Novel Al-Mg-Fe-Ni-Zr-Sc Alloy: Arrhenius-Based Modeling and Artificial Neural Network Approach
Applied Sciences • 2021
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Authors
Ahmed O Mosleh, Anton D Kotov, Anna A Kishchik, Oleg V Rofman, Anastasia V Mikhaylovskaya
Keywords
aluminum alloys; superplasticity; constitutive equations; artificial neural network; cross-validation
Journal
Applied Sciences
Publisher
MDPI
Volume
11
Issue
5
Pages
2208
publication.type
International
Paper Link
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Supplementary Materials
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Abstract
The application of superplastic forming for complex components manufacturing is attractive for automotive and aircraft industries and has been of great interest in recent years. The current analytical modeling theories are far from perfect in this area, and the results deduced from it characterize the forming conditions insufficiently well; therefore, successful numerical modeling is essential. In this study, the superplastic behavior of the novel Al-Mg-Fe-Ni-Zr-Sc alloy with high-strain-rate superplasticity was modeled. An Arrhenius-type constitutive hyperbolic-sine equation model (ACE) and an artificial neural network (ANN) were developed. A comparative study between the constructed models was performed based on statistical errors. A cross validation approach was utilized to evaluate the predictability of the developed models. The results revealed that the ACE and ANN models demonstrated strong workability in predicting the investigated alloy’s flow stress, whereas the ACE approach exhibited better predictability than the ANN.
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