Using conditional generative adversarial networks for the prediction of stresses in an adhesive composite

authored by

Abdul Wasay Khan, Claudio Balzani

Abstract

Fiber reinforced adhesives are an integral part of wind energy turbine blades and play an important role in evaluation of structural integrity of the blades. Digitization of manufacturing processes and demand for fast and efficient stress analysis argues for the application of deep learning. As a step forward in using deep learning to predict structural properties in composite, the work would explore the applicability of deep learning methods to 2D fiber reinforced composite. In this work, a composite adhesive used in wind energy turbine blades is used as an illustrative example. The composite adhesive when viewed using a CT scan machine shows a heterogeneous structure with two phases, a softer matrix phase and a much stiff fiber phase. For this purpose, several CT scan images of the fiber adhesive composite are used. The images on subsequent FEA analysis serves as the training data for the deep learning framework. Once trained, the neural network would be able to predict the stress distributions in the structure. We apply conditional adversarial networks as general purpose solutions to problems focused on stress prediction, which could be thought of as an image-to-image translation from the microstructure domain to the stress domain. These net-works in addition to learning the mapping from input image to output image also learn a loss function to train for this mapping. This makes the method more generic because otherwise different loss formulations for different problems have to be formulated.

Organisation(s)

Institute of Wind Energy Systems

Type

Article

Journal

PAMM

Volume

23

No. of pages

7

ISSN

1617-7061

Publication date

23.12.2023

Publication status

Published

Peer reviewed

Yes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Engineering(all), Computational Mechanics

Research Area (based on ÖFOS 2012)

Computational engineering

Sustainable Development Goals

SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy

Electronic version(s)

https://doi.org/10.1002/pamm.202300165 (Access: Open)