Abstract. Non-destructive stress measurement is necessary to provide safety
maintenance in some extreme machining environments. This paper reports a
case study that reveals the potential application of automatic metal stress
monitoring with the aid of the magnetic Barkhausen noise (MBN) signal and deep
learning algorithms (convolutional neural network, CNN, and long short-term memory, LSTM). Specifically, we applied the
experimental magnetic signals from steel samples to validate the
feasibility and efficiency of two deep learning models for stress
prediction. The results indicate that the CNN model possesses a faster training
speed and a better test accuracy (91.4 %), which confirms the feasibility of automatic stress monitoring applications.