Projects / Programmes
Relating the Physical Properties of Polymeric Materials by Parallel Implementation of Soft Computing Methods
Code |
Science |
Field |
Subfield |
2.07.00 |
Engineering sciences and technologies |
Computer science and informatics |
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Code |
Science |
Field |
P170 |
Natural sciences and mathematics |
Computer science, numerical analysis, systems, control |
T390 |
Technological sciences |
Polymer technology, biopolymers |
physical properties of rubber compounds, soft computing, neural networks, GRID, parallel computers
Researchers (9)
no. |
Code |
Name and surname |
Research area |
Role |
Period |
No. of publicationsNo. of publications |
1. |
13982 |
PhD Mojca Ciglarič |
Computer science and informatics |
Researcher |
2004 - 2005 |
368 |
2. |
17136 |
Vito Čehovin |
|
Technical associate |
2004 - 2005 |
14 |
3. |
02137 |
PhD Ilija Dimitrievski |
Materials science and technology |
Researcher |
2004 - 2007 |
83 |
4. |
02272 |
PhD Andrej Dobnikar |
Computer science and informatics |
Researcher |
2004 - 2007 |
212 |
5. |
16109 |
PhD Uroš Lotrič |
Computer science and informatics |
Head |
2004 - 2007 |
176 |
6. |
19365 |
PhD Matjaž Pančur |
Computer science and informatics |
Researcher |
2004 - 2005 |
96 |
7. |
14300 |
PhD Branko Šter |
Computer science and informatics |
Researcher |
2004 - 2007 |
151 |
8. |
02603 |
PhD Zoran Šušterič |
Chemical engineering |
Researcher |
2004 - 2007 |
213 |
9. |
06795 |
PhD Mira Trebar |
Computer science and informatics |
Researcher |
2004 - 2007 |
197 |
Organisations (2)
Abstract
For elastomeric materials it stands that the low strain mechanical properties of rubber compounds are related to the elastic properties of their vulcanizates, owing to multitude of secondary intermolecular linkages. These relations, being obvious at low strains and constant temperature, are blurred due to nonlinear response of materials at high strains and at different temperatures. Revealing new relations between materials' properties at high strains and different temperatures would contribute to improvement of laboratory testing quality. The number of lengthy tests on vulcanizates would thus be lowered, and additional information on suitability of test methods would be gained by comparison of the results.
Tofind complex relations between the data, techniques based on soft computing, primarily neural networks, evolutionary algorithms and fuzzy logic are used nowadays. Neural networks as general regression models are owing to their capability of generalization, adaptation and learning from examples very popular at solving the foregoing problems. Unfortunately, the learning procedures are time consuming which is particularly concerning when great quantity of data is dealt with.
To gain additional processing power resulting in faster procedures of polymer properties relations' establishment, the common desktop computers available in the company (at least at night) are intended to be joined into parallel computer. Possibilities enabled by new technologies will be centered on, in particular joining the computers into clusters and similar architectures.