Predicting Mechanical Properties from Microstructure Images in Fiber-reinforced Polymers using Convolutional Neural Networks

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2010.03675v1
• Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2020 22:15:48 GMT
• Title: Predicting Mechanical Properties from Microstructure Images in Fiber-reinforced Polymers using Convolutional Neural Networks
• Authors: Yixuan Sun, Imad Hanhan, Michael D. Sangid, and Guang Lin
• Abstract summary: This paper explores a fully convolutional neural network modified from StressNet to predict the stress field in 2D slices of segmented tomography images of a fiber-reinforced polymer specimen. The trained model can make predictions within seconds in a single forward pass on an ordinary laptop, compared to 92.5 hours to run the full finite element simulation on a high-performance computing cluster.
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• Abstract: Evaluating the mechanical response of fiber-reinforced composites can be extremely time consuming and expensive. Machine learning (ML) techniques offer a means for faster predictions via models trained on existing input-output pairs and have exhibited success in composite research. This paper explores a fully convolutional neural network modified from StressNet, which was originally for lin-ear elastic materials and extended here for a non-linear finite element (FE) simulation to predict the stress field in 2D slices of segmented tomography images of a fiber-reinforced polymer specimen. The network was trained and evaluated on data generated from the FE simulations of the exact microstructure. The testing results show that the trained network accurately captures the characteristics of the stress distribution, especially on fibers, solely from the segmented microstructure images. The trained model can make predictions within seconds in a single forward pass on an ordinary laptop, given the input microstructure, compared to 92.5 hours to run the full FE simulation on a high-performance computing cluster. These results show promise in using ML techniques to conduct fast structural analysis for fiber-reinforced composites and suggest a corollary that the trained model can be used to identify the location of potential damage sites in fiber-reinforced polymers.

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