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Evaluation of Thermal Embrittlement Susceptibility in Cast Austenitic Stainless Steel Using Artificial Neural Network

인공신경망을 이용한 주조 스테인리스강의 열취화 민감도 평가

  • 김철 (한전기술(주) 재료기술연구그룹) ;
  • 박흥배 (한전기술(주) 재료기술연구그룹) ;
  • 진태은 (전력연구원 원자력연구실) ;
  • 정일석 (한전기술(주) 재료기술연구그룹)
  • Published : 2004.04.01
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Abstract

Cast austenitic stainless steel is used for several components, such as primary coolant piping, elbow, pump casing and valve bodies in light water reactors. These components are subject to thermal aging at the reactor operating temperature. Thermal aging results in spinodal decomposition of the delta-ferrite leading to increased strength and decreased toughness. This study shows that ferrite content can be predicted by use of the artificial neural network. The neural network has trained teaming data of chemical components and ferrite contents using backpropagation learning process. The predicted results of the ferrite content using trained neural network are in good agreement with experimental ones.

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