Title: Surface roughness prediction modelling for commercial dies using ANFIS, ANN and RSM

Authors: Md. Shahriar Jahan Hossain; Nafis Ahmad

Addresses: Industrial and Production Engineering Department, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh ' Industrial and Production Engineering Department, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh

Abstract: Surface roughness of dies is considered as a vital quality characteristic. In this study, average surface roughness for a die material H13 has been measured after ball end milling operation. A design of experiment was prepared with response surface methodology (RSM). Forty-nine experiments have been conducted varying six different cutting parameters. This 49 data have been used for training purpose and further 25 testing data have been collected with random selection of input parameters. Better ANFIS model has been selected for minimum value of mean square error, which is constructed with two Gaussian membership functions (gauss2MF) for each input variables and a linear membership function for output. The selected ANFIS model has been compared with theoretical model, ANN and RSM. Comparison shows that the selected ANFIS model gives better result. Correlation test shows that only cutter axis inclination angle and radial depth of cut have positive correlation with surface roughness.

Keywords: commercial dies; surface roughness; manufacturing industry; surface quality; ball end milling; ANFIS; artificial neural networks; ANNs; response surface methodology; RSM; fuzzy inference; prediction modelling; design of experiments; DOE; cutter axis inclination angle; radial depth of cut.

DOI: 10.1504/IJISE.2014.058834

International Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering, 2014 Vol.16 No.2, pp.156 - 183

Published online: 07 Jun 2014 *

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