Karazi, Shadi ORCID: 0000-0002-8887-0873 and Brabazon, Dermot ORCID: 0000-0003-3214-6381 (2011) Evaluation of the effect of ND:YVO4 laser parameters on internal micro-channel fabrication in polycarbonate. In: International Conference on Neural Computation Theory and Applications NCTA 2011, 24-26 Oct 2011, Paris, France.
Abstract
This paper presents the development of Artificial Neural Network (ANN) models for the prediction of laser
machined internal micro-channels’ dimensions and production costs. In this work, a pulsed Nd:YVO4 laser
was used for machining micro-channels in polycarbonate material. Six ANN multi-layered, feed-forward,
back-propagation models are presented which were developed on three different training data sets. The
analysed data was obtained from a 33 factorial design of experiments (DoE). The controlled parameters
were laser power, P; pulse repetition frequency, PRF; and sample translation speed; U. Measured responses
were the micro-channel width and the micro-machining operating cost per metre of produced microchannel.
The responses were sufficiently predicted within the set micro-machining parameters limits. Three
carefully selected statistical criteria were used for comparing the performance of the ANN predictive
models. The comparison showed that model which had the largest amount of training data provided the
highest degree of predictability. However, in cases where only a limited amount of ANN training data was
available, then training data taken from a Face Centred Cubic (FCC) model design provided the highest
level of predictability compared with the other examined training data sets
Metadata
Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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Event Type: | Conference |
Refereed: | Yes |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | pulsed Nd:YVO4 laser; ANN; factorial DoE; predictive models; channel dimensions; Polycarbonate |
Subjects: | Engineering > Materials Engineering > Mechanical engineering |
DCU Faculties and Centres: | DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Engineering and Computing > School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering |
Use License: | This item is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. View License |
ID Code: | 16675 |
Deposited On: | 09 Nov 2011 15:59 by Fran Callaghan . Last Modified 20 Sep 2018 10:16 |
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