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Scientia Silvae Sinicae ›› 2020, Vol. 56 ›› Issue (6): 76-82.doi: 10.11707/j.1001-7488.20200608

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Simulation of Drying Strain Based on Artificial Neural Network Model

Zongying Fu1,Yingchun Cai2,Xin Gao1,Fan Zhou1,Jinghui Jiang1,Yongdong Zhou1,*   

  1. 1. Key Laboratory of Wood Science and Technology of National Forestry and Grassland Administration Research Institute of Wood Industry, CAF Beijing 100091
    2. College of Material Science and Engineering, Northeast Forestry University Harbin 150040
  • Received:2018-03-20 Online:2020-06-25 Published:2020-07-17
  • Contact: Yongdong Zhou

Abstract:

Objective: The effects of drying schedule, pretreatment condition, moisture content on wood drying stress and its distribution from pith to bark were investigated in this study to achieve the simulation and prediction of drying strain. Methods: The data sets of elastic strain and mechano-sorptive creep obtained with image analysis method were analyzed. The elastic strain and mechano-sorptive creep were modelled by artificial neural network, for the model of elastic strain with four inputs, i.e., drying temperatures, wood moisture content, relative humidity and the distance from pith, and for mechano-sorptive creep added pre-steaming temperature as an additional input. According to the training and validation processes, two reasonable prediction models were obtained, and then the predictive ability of the models were discussed with testing processes. Results: In elastic strain model, there were significant correlations between experimental and predicted values in all date sets. The R-values for training, validation and test sets were 0.988, 0.983 and 0.978, respectively. The R2 values were greater than 0.95 in all data sets, and the best validation performance of the mean square error was 1.21×10-6. In mechano-sorptive creep model, the R-values for training and validation sets were 0.981 and 0.977 with the data sets at moisture content of 28% and 12%, respectively. The best validation performance of the mean square error was 1.26×10-6. The R-value for test set was 0.969 with the data set at moisture content of 20%. Furthermore, the R2 values were greater than 0.94 in all data sets, indicating that the network model was capable to explain more than 94% experimental values. Conclusion: In the two established models, the predicted values were in good agreement with the experimental values, showing a high prediction accuracy, which provided a feasible basis for the application of artificial neural network in exploring drying stress and strain.

Key words: artificial neural network, elastic strain, mechano-sorptive creep, simulation and prediction

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