Model Fusion via a Master Fuzzy System with Special Application to Engineering Materials

Imprecise knowledge based design and development of titanium alloys for prosthetic applications

“…But searching the optimum combination of the alloying additions in the experimental domain becomes expensive from the view point of time and money. On the other hand computational design strategies have the capacity to stimulate 'right first time' experimentation [19,20], which aims to achieve the targeted properties within a few attempts. The 'first principle' techniques are utilized by several workers using parameter-free density functional theory calculations to provide guidance in selecting and optimizing Ti alloys with respect to the use of non-toxic alloy elements, the stabilization of the β-phase and the reduction of the stiffness compared [21] or by means of ab initio plane-wave pseudo-potential method to investigate mono-vacancy, divacancy and self-interstitials in α titanium [22].…”

Model fusion using fuzzy aggregation: Special applications to metal properties

“…In recent years, some intelligent data-driven modelling approaches have been considered for the prediction of residual stresses. For instance, artificial neural networks have been used by Kafkas et al [31] and Umbrello et al [32], and fuzzy rule-based systems have been employed by Zhang et al [33,34]. Compared with analytically based methods, such as FEMs, intelligent systems are simpler in structure and easier to apply.…”

Engine fault diagnosis based on sensor data fusion considering information quality and evidence theory

“…And some methods of information fusion 16 used in fault diagnosis and other fields have been proposed, such as Kalman Filter, [17][18][19] neural network, [20][21][22] and fuzzy logic. [23][24][25][26][27][28] In addition, evidence theory 29,30 is efficient to deal with uncertainty [31][32][33][34][35][36][37] and Dempster's rule can take the advantage of evidence combination from different sources without prior information. Up to now, on the basis of evidence theory, D-number, [38][39][40] Z-number, 41,42 and so on, have been studied by lots of scholars.…”