Prediction of fatigue life for spot welds using back-propagation neural networks

In this research, the authors developed back-propagation neural networks (BNNs) to predict the fatigue life of spot welds subjected to various geometric factors and loading conditions. This paper described the developing procedures of the BNNs in detail for the spot weld fatigue. Then, the BNNs developed in this study were employed to predict the fatigue life of the spot welds subjected to combined tension and shear loading and tensile-shear...