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Steel-making process is a complex procedure involving the presence of exogenous materials which could potentially lead to non-metallic inclusions. Determining the abundance of inclusions in the earliest stage possible may help to reduce costs and avoid further post-processing manufacturing steps to alleviate undesired effects. This paper presents a data analysis and machine learning approach to analyze data related to austenitic stainless steel (Type 304L) in order to develop a decision-support tool helping to minimize the inclusion content present in the final product. Several machine learning models (generalized linear models with regularization, random forest, artificial neural networks and support vector machines) were tested in this analysis. Moreover, two different outcomes were analyzed (average and maximum abundance of inclusions per steel cast) and two different settings were considered within the analysis based on the input features used to train the models (full set of features and more relevant ones). The results showed that the average abundance of inclusions can be predicted more accurately than the maximum abundance of inclusions using linear models and the reduced set of features. A list of the more relevant features linked to the abundance of inclusions based on the data and models used in this study is additionally provided.
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This work is part of the ACERINOX EUROPA S.A.U research project AUSINOX IDI-20170081 - “Obtaining austenitic stainless steels with minimum inclusion content from the development of new advanced simulation models in melting shop processes”, supported by CDTI (Centro para el Desarrollo Tecnológico Industrial), Spain. This project has been co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund (FEDER), within the Intelligent Growth Operational Program 2014–2020, with the aim of promoting research, technological development and innovation. Authors acknowledge support through grant RTI2018-098160-B-I00 from MINECO-SPAIN which include FEDER funds.
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Mesa, H. et al. (2019). A Machine Learning Approach to Determine Abundance of Inclusions in Stainless Steel. In: Pérez García, H., Sánchez González, L., Castejón Limas, M., Quintián Pardo, H., Corchado Rodríguez, E. (eds) Hybrid Artificial Intelligent Systems. HAIS 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11734. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29859-3_43
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