Volume 45, Issue 9 pp. 2748-2766
SPECIAL ISSUE ARTICLE

Fatigue life prediction in presence of mean stresses using domain knowledge-integrated ensemble of extreme learning machines

Lei Gan

Lei Gan

School of Science, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China

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Hao Wu

Corresponding Author

Hao Wu

School of Aerospace Engineering and Applied Mechanics, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

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Hao Wu and Zheng Zhong, School of Aerospace Engineering and Applied Mechanics, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China.

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Zheng Zhong

Corresponding Author

Zheng Zhong

School of Science, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China

School of Aerospace Engineering and Applied Mechanics, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

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Hao Wu and Zheng Zhong, School of Aerospace Engineering and Applied Mechanics, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China.

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First published: 14 July 2022
Citations: 9

Funding information: National Natural Science Foundation of China, Grant/Award Numbers: 11972255, 11932005; Shanghai Natural Science Foundation, Grant/Award Number: 19ZR1459000; The Program of Innovation Team in Universities and Colleges in Guangdong, Grant/Award Number: 2021KCXTD006

Abstract

An accurate and stable data-driven model is proposed in this work for fatigue life prediction in presence of mean stresses. Multiple independent extreme learning machines are integrated into the model with distinct neural network configurations to simulate the complex correlations among mean stress levels, material properties, and fatigue lives. Meanwhile, the theoretical prediction, as a representation of domain knowledge, is used to optimize the data-driven processes of model training and prediction. Extensive experimental data of 13 metallic materials with different mean stress levels are collected from the open literatures for model training and evaluation. The results demonstrate that the proposed model can achieve high accuracy and good stability in fatigue life prediction under mean stress loading conditions, even with a small training dataset, showing great applicability for fatigue life prediction.

DATA AVAILABILITY STATEMENT

The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.

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