• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제56권10호
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• pp.4149-4157
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• 2024

Welding processes are used to connect several components in nuclear power plants. These welding processes can induce residual stress in welding joints, which has been identified as a significant factor in primary water stress corrosion cracking. Consequently, the assessment of welding residual stress plays a crucial role in determining the structural integrity of welded joints. In this study, a deep fuzzy neural networks (DFNN) with a rule-dropout method, which is an artificial intelligence (AI) method, was used to predict the residual stress of dissimilar metal welding. ABAQUS, a finite element analysis program, was used as the data collection tool to develop the AI model, and 6300 data instances were collected under 150 analysis conditions. A rule-dropout method and genetic algorithm were used to optimize the estimation performance of the DFNN model. DFNN with the rule-dropout model was compared to a deep neural network method, known as a general deep learning method, to evaluate the estimation performance of DFNN. In addition, a fuzzy neural network method and a cascaded support vector regression method conducted in previous studies were compared. Consequently, the estimation performance of the DFNN with the rule-dropout model was better than those of the comparison methods. The welding residual stress estimation results of this study are expected to contribute to the evaluation of the structural integrity of welded joints.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제53권12호
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• pp.4014-4021
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• 2021

If safety injection systems (SISs) do not work in the event of a loss-of-coolant accident (LOCA), the accident can progress to a severe accident in which the reactor core is exposed and the reactor vessel fails. Therefore, it is considered that a technology that provides recoverable maximum time for SIS actuation is necessary to prevent this progression. In this study, the corresponding time was defined as the golden time. To achieve the objective of accurately predicting the golden time, the prediction was performed using the deep fuzzy neural network (DFNN) with rule-dropout. The DFNN with rule-dropout has an architecture in which many of the fuzzy neural networks (FNNs) are connected and is a method in which the fuzzy rule numbers, which are directly related to the number of nodes in the FNN that affect inference performance, are properly adjusted by a genetic algorithm. The golden time prediction performance of the DFNN model with rule-dropout was better than that of the support vector regression model. By using the prediction result through the proposed DFNN with rule-dropout, it is expected to prevent the aggravation of the accidents by providing the maximum remaining time for SIS recovery, which failed in the LOCA situation.