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The Application of Artificial Neural Network (ANN) Technique to Formulation Design of Flame Retardant Polymers—II. Halogen-Free Flame Retardant Polymeric Composites

Juntao Xia

National Laboratory of Flame Retardant Materials, School of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Beijing Institute of Technology, 100081 Beijing, China

Jianqi Wang

National Laboratory of Flame Retardant Materials, School of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Beijing Institute of Technology, 100081 Beijing, China, bitjq{at}public.bta.net.cn

Congming Huang

School of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Beijing Institute of Technology, 100081 Beijing, China

The application of artificial neural network (ANN) to formulation design of the natural color, halogen-free flame retardant materials was conducted by means of flame retardant expert system (FRES 2.0). This work involves an ANN model with three objects. The optimized outputs, such as LOI, TS and EL were shown to be in good accordance with experiments. An intuitive graphical analysis led to dealing with the correlation between performance and components in formulations, where normally subjected to serious nonlinearity and/or multiobjects. It should be emphasized that together with the three-layered BP (back-propagation) network-based modeling, one can do what can hardly be done before with conventional techniques.

Key Words: artificial neural network • halogen-free flame retardant • formulation design • FRES 2.0

Journal of Fire Sciences, Vol. 19, No. 4, 309-328 (2001)
DOI: 10.1106/R3A6-8HEQ-5NNV-P2XN
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