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Hybrid FE-ML model for turning of 42CrMo4 steel




AuthorsLaakso, Sampsa Vili Antero; Mityakov, Andrey; Niinimäki, Tom; Ribeiro, Kandice Suane Barros; Bessa, Wallace Moreira

PublisherElsevier BV

Publication year2024

JournalCIRP Journal of Manufacturing Science and Technology

Journal name in sourceCIRP Journal of Manufacturing Science and Technology

Volume55

First page 333

Last page346

ISSN1755-5817

eISSN1878-0016

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.cirpj.2024.10.003

Web address https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cirpj.2024.10.003

Self-archived copy’s web addresshttps://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/458928591


Abstract
Metal cutting processes contribute significant share of the added value of industrial products. The need for machining has grown exponentially with increasing demands for quality and accuracy, and despite of more than a century of research in the field, there are no reliable and accurate models that describe all the physical phenomena needed to optimize the machining processes. The scientific community has begun to explore hybrid methods instead of expanding the capabilities of individual modelling schemes, which has been more efficient than efficacious direction. Following this trend, we propose a hybrid finite element — machine learning method (FEML) for modelling metal cutting. The advantages of the FEML method are reduced need for experimental data, reduced computational time and improved prediction accuracy. This paper describes the FEML model, which uses a Coupled Eulerian Lagrangian (CEL) formulation and deep neural networks (DNN) from the TensorFlow Python library. The machining experiments include forces, chip morphology and surface roughness. The experimental data was divided into training dataset and validation dataset to confirm the model predictions outside the experimental data range. The hybrid FEML model outperformed the DNN and FEM models independently, by reducing the computational time, improving the average prediction error from 23% to 13% and reduced the need for experimental data by half.

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Funding information in the publication
Manufacturing initiative (Susmat) in University of Turku funded by Research Council of Finland (grant nr. 352727).


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