Modeling the Bending Strength of MDF Faced, Polyurethane Foam-Cored Sandwich Panels Using Response Surface Methodology (RSM) and Artificial Neural Network (ANN)

The present study evaluates and compares predictions on the performance and the approaches of the response surface methodology (RSM) and the artificial neural network (ANN) so to model the bending strength of the polyurethane foam-cored sandwich panel. The effect of the independent variables (formal...

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Autores principales: Morteza Nazerian, Fateme Naderi, Ali Partovinia, Antonios N. Papadopoulos, Hamed Younesi-Kordkheili
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Lenguaje:EN
Publicado: MDPI AG 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://doaj.org/article/68f06268bfd14afa9097249292958b78
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Sumario:The present study evaluates and compares predictions on the performance and the approaches of the response surface methodology (RSM) and the artificial neural network (ANN) so to model the bending strength of the polyurethane foam-cored sandwich panel. The effect of the independent variables (formaldehyde to urea molar ratio (MR), sandwich panel thickness (PT) and the oxidized protein to melamine-urea-formaldehyde synthesized resin weight ratio (WR)) was examined based on the bending strength by the central composite design of the RSM and the multilayer perceptron of the ANN. The models were statistically compared based on the training and validation data sets via the determination coefficient (<i>R</i><sup>2</sup>), the root mean squares error (RMSE), the absolute average deviation (AAD) and the mean absolute percentage error (MAPE). The <i>R</i><sup>2</sup> calculated for the ANN and the RSM models was 0.9969 and 0.9960, respectively. The models offered good predictions; however, the ANN model was more precise than the RSM model, thus proving that the ANN and the RSM models are valuable instruments to model and optimize the bending properties of the sandwich panel.