Research Article

Novel Method in Induction Heating for Complex Steel Plate Deformation Based on Artificial Neural Network

Table 1

Induction parameter for experiment and analysis and estimating form by ANN and experiment.

NoMaterialAH32 mild steel

Induction parameterInput power40 kW, 45 kHz
Current3750A
Inductor treated velocity5 mm per second
Critical temperature≥723oC

Experiment 1Wavy shape induction thermo-bending with multiple diagonal heating regions500 × 500 × 20 (mm)
500 × 400 × 10 (mm)

Experiment 2Require curvature of thick plate with surface heating regions500 × 500 × 30 (mm)
Experiment 3Saddle plate induction thermo-bending with circular heating regions500 × 500 × 10 (mm)