Classifying Four Carbon Fiber Fabrics via Machine Learning: A Comparative Study Using ANNs and SVM

Carbon fiber fabrics are important engineering materials. However, it is confusing to classify different carbon fiber fabrics, leading to risks in engineering processes. Here, a classification method for four types of carbon fiber fabrics is proposed using artificial neural networks (ANNs) and support vector machine (SVM) based on 229 experimental data groups. Sample width, breaking strength and breaking tenacity were set as independent variables. Quantified numbers for the four carbon fiber fabrics were set as dependent variables. Results show that a multilayer feed-forward neural network with 21 hidden nodes (MLFN-21) has the best performance for classification, with the lowest root mean square error (RMSE) in the testing set.

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