Prediction of stress concentration factor of corrosion pits on buried pipes by least squares support vector machine

Concentrated working stress of a corrosion pit is known to be an important factor inducing the deterioration and consequently the breakage of a buried pipe. In this paper, we investigate the stress concentration factors (SCFs) of isolated elliptical corrosion pits using 3-D finite element analyses. The elliptical pits are fully characterized by their 3-D geometries, i.e., major and minor diameters and pit depth via a series of parametric studies...