Multiaxial fatigue life prediction for various metallic materials based
on the hybrid CNN-LSTM neural network
Abstract
A new algorithm optimization-based hybrid neural network model is
proposed in the present study for the multiaxial fatigue life prediction
of various metallic materials. Firstly, a convolutional neural network
(CNN) is applied to extract the in-depth features from the loading
sequence comprised of the critical fatigue loading conditions.
Meanwhile, the multiaxial historical loading information with
time-series features is retained. Then, a long short-term memory (LSTM)
network is adopted to capture the time-series features and in-depth
features of the CNN output. Finally, a full connection layer is used to
achieve dimensional transformation, which makes the fatigue life
predictable. Herein, the hyperparameters of the LSTM network are
automatically determined using the slime mould algorithm (SMA). The test
results demonstrate that the proposed model has pleasant prediction
performance and extrapolation capability, and it is suitable for the
life prediction of various metallic materials under uniaxial,
proportional multiaxial, non-proportional multiaxial loading conditions.