Corrosion-fatigue crack growth (da/dN) of dual phase (DP) steel was analyze
d using an artificial neural network (ANN) based model. The training data c
onsisted of corrosion-fatigue crack growth rates at varying stress intensit
y ranges (DeltaK) for martensite contents between 32 and 76%. The ANN model
exhibited excellent comparison with the experimental results. Since a larg
e number of variables are used during training the model, it will provide a
reliable and useful predictor for corrosion-fatigue crack growth (FCG) in
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