Application of an expert system to predict thermal conductivity of rocks

- Khandelwal, Manoj

  • Authors: Khandelwal, Manoj
  • Date: 2012
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: Neural Computing and Applications Vol. 21, no. 6 (2012), p. 1341-1347
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  • Description: In this paper, an attempt has been made to predict the thermal conductivity (TC) of rocks by incorporating uniaxial compressive strength, density, porosity, and P-wave velocity using support vector machine (SVM). Training of the SVM network was carried out using 102 experimental data sets of various rocks, whereas 25 new data sets were used for the testing of the TC by SVM model. Multivariate regression analysis (MVRA) has also been carried out with same data sets that were used for the training of SVM model. SVM and MVRA results were compared based on coefficient of determination (CoD) and mean absolute error (MAE) between experimental and predicted values of TC. It was found that CoD between measured and predicted values of TC by SVM and MVRA was 0. 994 and 0. 918, respectively, whereas MAE was 0. 0453 and 0. 2085 for SVM and MVRA, respectively. © 2011 Springer-Verlag London Limited.

An intelligent approach to evaluate drilling performance

- Bhatnagar, Anupam, Khandelwal, Manoj

  • Authors: Bhatnagar, Anupam , Khandelwal, Manoj
  • Date: 2012
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: Neural Computing and Applications Vol. 21, no. 4 (2012), p. 763-770
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  • Description: In this paper, an attempt has been made to predict the rate of penetration (ROP) of rocks by incorporating thrust, revolutions per minute (rpm), flushing media and compressive strength of rocks using artificial neural network (ANN) technique. A three-layer feed-forward back-propagation neural network with 4-7-1 architecture was trained using 472 experimental data sets of sandstone, limestone, rock phosphate, dolomite, marble and quartz-chlorite-schist rocks. A total of 146 new data sets were used for the testing and comparison of the ROP by ANN. Multivariate regression analysis (MVRA) has also been done with same data sets of ANN. ANN and MVRA results were compared based on coefficient of determination (CoD) and mean absolute error (MAE) between experimental and predicted values of ROP. The coefficient of determination by ANN was 0. 985, while coefficient of determination was 0. 629 for rate of penetration. The mean absolute error (MAE) for rate of penetration by ANN was 0. 3547, whereas MAE by MVRA was 1. 7499. © 2010 Springer-Verlag London Limited.
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