MULTI-OBJECTIVE OPTIMISATION OF INVERSE HEAT CONDUCTION PROBLEM USING EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS

T.Venkata Seshaiah Naidu 1,a, S. Deva Prasad1 and V. Pandurangadu 2

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Department of Mechanical Engineering, Vardhaman College of Engineering, Shamshabad, Hyderabad, A.P.

Department of Mechanical Engineering, JNTUA College of Engineering, Anantapur, A.P. (a Corresponding author, e-mail: tvsn79@gmail.com)

Inverse heat conduction problem (IHCP) arises in the modeling and control of processes with heat propagation in thermophysics and mechanics of continuous media. Many manufacturing processes and tribological applications involve relative sliding of two bodies with thermal energy generated at the contact region due to either plastic deformation or friction, e.g. heat generated in machining due to plastic deformation in the primary shear zone or sliding of the chip past the tool face resulting in frictional heat at the interface. The sliding system (e.g. washer on disk, pin on disk) is approximated initially to an infinitely long band heat source with uniform distribution of heat intensity. Modeling, analysis and prediction of this phenomenon is particularly challenging.

The IHCP analysis method provides an efficient approach for estimating the thermo physical properties of materials, the boundary conditions, or the initial conditions. A direct integral method using hyperbolic regularization to solve the IHCP is derived and investigated (D.A. Murio, C.C. Roth. 1998) after weber, who replaced the heat conduction equation with an approximately hyperbolic one, obtaining a formally well-posed problem.. Analytical solutions were developed for the temperature rise distribution for the classical case of a tribological sliding system due to frictional heat source at the interface (Komanduri and Hou 2001). This work investigates the case of IHCP, multi-objective case, through the application of evolutionary algorithms in finding the heat transfer coefficient, h, and heat flux, q, values for the classical tribological sliding system at the interface due to frictional resistance offered. Results obtained from three different approaches are compared and evaluated. The validity of

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