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Published in: Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing 4/2024

12-05-2023

A fast spatio-temporal temperature predictor for vacuum assisted resin infusion molding process based on deep machine learning modeling

Authors: Runyu Zhang, Yingjian Liu, Thomas Zheng, Sarah Eddin, Steven Nolet, Yi-Ling Liang, Shaghayegh Rezazadeh, Joseph Wilson, Hongbing Lu, Dong Qian

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Abstract

The manufacture of large wind turbine blades requires well-controlled processing conditions to prevent defect formation and thus produce high-quality composite blades. While the physics-based models provide accurate computational capabilities for the resin infusion and curing process for the glass fiber composites, they suffer from high computational costs, making them infeasible for fast optimization computation and process control during manufacturing. In light of the limitations, we describe a machine learning (ML) approach that employs a deep convolutional and recurrent neural network model to predict the spatio-temporal temperature distribution during the vacuum assisted resin infusion molding (VARIM) process. The ML model is trained with the “big data” generated from the physics-based high-fidelity simulations. Once fully trained, it serves as a digital twin of the blade manufacturing process. Validation is made by comparing simulation results with experimental data on a unidirectional glass fiber composite laminate plate (44 plies, 2 m long and 0.5 m wide). The trained and validated ML model is then extended to evaluate the role of critical VARIM processing parameters on temperature distribution. With the predictive accuracy of 94%, at over 100 times faster computational speed than the physics-based simulations, the ML approach established herein provides a general framework for a digital twin for temperature distribution in the composite manufacturing process.

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Metadata
Title
A fast spatio-temporal temperature predictor for vacuum assisted resin infusion molding process based on deep machine learning modeling
Authors
Runyu Zhang
Yingjian Liu
Thomas Zheng
Sarah Eddin
Steven Nolet
Yi-Ling Liang
Shaghayegh Rezazadeh
Joseph Wilson
Hongbing Lu
Dong Qian
Publication date
12-05-2023
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing / Issue 4/2024
Print ISSN: 0956-5515
Electronic ISSN: 1572-8145
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10845-023-02113-4

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