Nuclear Engineering and Technology (May 2020)

Design of comprehensive mechanical properties by machine learning and high-throughput optimization algorithm in RAFM steels

  • Chenchong Wang,
  • Chunguang Shen,
  • Xiaojie Huo,
  • Chi Zhang,
  • Wei Xu

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 52, no. 5
pp. 1008 – 1012

Abstract

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In order to make reasonable design for the improvement of comprehensive mechanical properties of RAFM steels, the design system with both machine learning and high-throughput optimization algorithm was established. As the basis of the design system, a dataset of RAFM steels was compiled from previous literatures. Then, feature engineering guided random forests regressors were trained by the dataset and NSGA II algorithm were used for the selection of the optimal solutions from the large-scale solution set with nine composition features and two treatment processing features. The selected optimal solutions by this design system showed prospective mechanical properties, which was also consistent with the physical metallurgy theory. This efficiency design mode could give the enlightenment for the design of other metal structural materials with the requirement of multi-properties. Keywords: Machine learning, High-throughput optimization, Mechanical property, RAFM steel