Fatigue short crack growth prediction of additively manufactured alloy
based on ensemble learning
Abstract
In-situ fatigue crack propagation experiment was conducted on laser
cladding with coaxial powder feeding (LCPF) K477 under various stress
ratios and temperatures. Multiple crack initiation sites were observed
by using in-situ scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The fatigue short
crack growth rate was measured, and the impacts of temperature and
stress ratio on this growth rate were analyzed. Based on these
experiments, the experimental data were expanded, and three ensemble
learning algorithms, i.e. random forest (RF), extreme gradient boosting
(XGBoost) and light gradient boosting machine (LightGBM) were employed
to establish a fatigue short crack growth rate model controlled by
multiple parameters. It is indicated that the RF model performs the
best, achieving a coefficient of determination ( R
2) of up to 0.88. The fatigue life predicted by the
machine learning (ML) method agrees well with the experimental one.