Modeling of the thickness of a Submerged Tube by the Artificial Neural Network

Several theoretical and experimental studies show that the characterization of a tube can be done through the cut-off frequencies of the anti-symmetric circumferential waves A1 propagating around the tube of various radius ratio b/a (a: outer radius and b: inner radius). This work investigates the abilities of Artificial Neural Networks ANN to predict the thickness of a tube immersed in water for various cut-frequency of anti-symmetric circumferential wave A1. The useful data determinated from calculated trajectories of natural modes of resonances, were used to develop and to test the performances of these models. The ANN model was trained using Levenberg-Marquardt(LM) algorithm. Several configurations are evaluated during the development of these networks. The Mean Absolute Error (MAE), Mean Relative Error (MRE), Standard Error (SE), Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) and Correlation Coefficient (R) were the statistical performance indices, that were used to evaluate the accuracy of the various models. Based on the comparison between ANN and theoretical method, it was found that the ANN model can be applied successfully in the in the modeling of the thickness of a Submerged Tube.