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Machine Learning Approach for Predicting Angle of Repose in Powder Spreading Process

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 Machine Learning Approach for Predicting Angle of Repose in
Powder Spreading Process
Kuldeep Mandloi, Parth Amrapurkar, Nishant Ojal, Dr. Atif Farid Mohammad
UNC Charlotte

Introduction
o Selective laser melting (SLM) process is one of the most
Widely Used Additive Manufacturing (AM) Process.
o Powder spreading is done to feed into the bed. High power
laser beam is used to melt and fuse the selected area of
powder materials to manufacture desired part.
o Conducting experiments to understand the effect of process
parameter is costly. Hence, in this work, the machine
learning-based predictive models, Artificial neural network
(ANN) is used for the same.
o The neural network modeling was performed using Python
the training algorithm. The optimal neural network
architecture along with the activation function that produced
Selective laser melting- Process setup Angle of repose
the least error in prediction was identified.

Methodology
Data collection for building Neural network is done by varying the following
input parameters. A total of 36 simulations are run to get angle of repose as output
for each. 80% of data is used for training and 20% for testing.

Particle size Surface energy

Rolling friction
(microns) (mJ/ m2)
25 0.48 .01
35 0.97 .03
50 1.4 .05
75

Artificial neural network (ANN):

o Python programming language is used, with Keras library for building ANN.
o Feed forward back propagation used with Adam as learning algorithm.
o Number of layers, number of neurons varied to train the model. Artificial neural network
o Best Activation functions determined during training.

Result
o Number of hidden layers are varied from 2 to 3 and number of
neurons are varied from 2 to 15. The architecture with 3-9-7-1
gives the best result.
o ANN model is trained to predict the angle of response within a
fair accuracy.
o Relu activation function gives the least error.

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