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Title: Predicting Elastic Constants of Refractory Complex Concentrated Alloys Using Machine Learning Approach
Refractory complex concentrated alloys (RCCAs) have drawn increasing attention recently owing to their balanced mechanical properties, including excellent creep resistance, ductility, and oxidation resistance. The mechanical and thermal properties of RCCAs are directly linked with the elastic constants. However, it is time consuming and expensive to obtain the elastic constants of RCCAs with conventional trial-and-error experiments. The elastic constants of RCCAs are predicted using a combination of density functional theory simulation data and machine learning (ML) algorithms in this study. The elastic constants of several RCCAs are predicted using the random forest regressor, gradient boosting regressor (GBR), and XGBoost regression models. Based on performance metrics R-squared, mean average error and root mean square error, the GBR model was found to be most promising in predicting the elastic constant of RCCAs among the three ML models. Additionally, GBR model accuracy was verified using the other four RHEAs dataset which was never seen by the GBR model, and reasonable agreements between ML prediction and available results were found. The present findings show that the GBR model can be used to predict the elastic constant of new RHEAs more accurately without performing any expensive computational and experimental work.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
1946231
PAR ID:
10403738
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Date Published:
Journal Name:
Materials
Volume:
15
Issue:
14
ISSN:
1996-1944
Page Range / eLocation ID:
4997
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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