EVALUATION OF MECHANICAL AND FLAME RETARDANT PROPERTIES OF MEDIUM DENSITY FIBERBOARD USING ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK

AUTOR(ES)

Nazerian, Morteza; Shirzaii, Sakine; Gargarii, Rahim Mohebbi; Vatankhah, Elham

FONTE

CERNE

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2020-06

RESUMO

ABSTRACT The present study presents the application of artificial neural network (ANN) to predict the modulus of rupture (MOR) and mass loss (ML) of the fire retarded fiberboard. Hence, the effect of adding the fire retardants including boric acid, borax and ammonium sulfate was evaluated on MOR and ML of fiberboard manufactured at different press temperatures. At first, the experimental design was created based on the Response Surface Methodology, and then the significance of each independent variable with respect to its effect on the responses was evaluated through ANOVA test. It was determined that the positive effects of increasing press temperatures on MOR compensated the negative effects of fire retardant content on it. However, ML decreases more at the same time. ANN results exhibited a good agreement with experimental results. It was shown that the prediction error was in an acceptable range. The results indicated that the developed ANN model can predict the MOR and ML of the fiberboard with an acceptable accuracy. Therefore, applying the proposed model can lead to obtain the desirable outputs of MOR and ML by performing fewer experiments, and spending less time and cost.

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