Towards robust prediction of material properties for nuclear reactor design under scarce data : a study in creep rupture property
Chen, Yu and Patelli, Edoardo and Yang, Zhen and Lye, Adolphus (2024) Towards robust prediction of material properties for nuclear reactor design under scarce data : a study in creep rupture property. Other. arXiv, Ithaca, NY. (https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2405.17862)
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Abstract
Advances in Deep Learning bring further investigation into credibility and robustness, especially for safety-critical engineering applications such as the nuclear industry. The key challenges include the availability of data set (often scarce and sparse) and insufficient consideration of the uncertainty in the data, model, and prediction. This paper therefore presents a meta-learning based approach that is both uncertainty- and prior knowledge-informed, aiming at trustful predictions of material properties for the nuclear reactor design. It is suited for robust learning under limited data. Uncertainty has been accounted for where a distribution of predictor functions are produced for extrapolation. Results suggest it achieves superior performance than existing empirical methods in rupture life prediction, a case which is typically under a small data regime. While demonstrated herein with rupture properties, this learning approach is transferable to solve similar problems of data scarcity across the nuclear industry. It is of great importance to boosting the AI analytics in the nuclear industry by proving the applicability and robustness while providing tools that can be trusted.
ORCID iDs
Chen, Yu, Patelli, Edoardo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5007-7247, Yang, Zhen and Lye, Adolphus;-
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Item type: Monograph(Other) ID code: 90443 Dates: DateEvent28 May 2024PublishedSubjects: Technology > Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
Technology > Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
Science > Mathematics > Electronic computers. Computer scienceDepartment: Faculty of Engineering > Civil and Environmental Engineering Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 02 Sep 2024 15:59 Last modified: 10 Oct 2024 00:10 URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/90443