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Explainable Artificial Intelligence to Investigate the Contribution of Design Variables to the Static Characteristics of Bistable Composite Laminates

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  • Saeid Saberi
  • Hamid Nasiri
  • Omid Ghorbani
  • Michael I. Friswell
  • Saullo G.P. Castro
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Article number5381
<mark>Journal publication date</mark>31/07/2023
<mark>Journal</mark>Materials
Issue number15
Volume16
Publication StatusPublished
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

Material properties, geometrical dimensions, and environmental conditions can greatly influence the characteristics of bistable composite laminates. In the current work, to understand how each input feature contributes to the curvatures of the stable equilibrium shapes of bistable laminates and the snap-through force to change these configurations, the correlation between these inputs and outputs is studied using a novel explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) approach called SHapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP). SHAP is employed to explain the contribution and importance of the features influencing the curvatures and the snap-through force since XAI models change the data into a form that is more convenient for users to understand and interpret. The principle of minimum energy and the Rayleigh–Ritz method is applied to obtain the responses of the bistable laminates used as the input datasets in SHAP. SHAP effectively evaluates the importance of the input variables to the parameters. The results show that the transverse thermal expansion coefficient and moisture variation have the most impact on the model’s output for the transverse curvatures and snap-through force. The eXtreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost) and Finite Element (FM) methods are also employed to identify the feature importance and validate the theoretical approach, respectively.

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