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Nondestructive elastostatic identification of unilateral cracks through BEM and neural networks

Antes, Horst, 1936-, Stavroulakis Georgios

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URI: http://purl.tuc.gr/dl/dias/D2A749E3-DD41-4A1F-96BD-B0D8DECD151B
Year 1997
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Bibliographic Citation G. E. Stavroulakis, H. Antes ,"Nondestructive elastostatic identification of unilateral cracks through BEM and neural networks ,"Comput. Mech. vol. 20,no.5, pp. 439-451,1997.doi:10.1007/s004660050264 https://doi.org/10.1007/s004660050264
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An inverse problem in nonlinear elastostatics is considered which concerns the identification of unilateral contact cracks by means of boundary measurements for given static loadings. Highly nonlinear structural behaviour like closed cracks can hardly be identified. In this case, the analysis of more than one loading cases is proposed and tested in this paper. The direct problem is modelled by using a direct multiregion boundary element formulation. The arising linear complementarity problem is solved explicitly by a pivoting (Lemke) technique. In view of the complexity of the inverse problem, a neural network based identification approach is adopted which uses feed-forward multilayer neural networks trained by back-propagation, error-driven supervised training. The applicability of the method is demonstrated by some numerical examples.

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