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Artificial intelligence (AI) researchers created new techniques, developed and applied them to solve engineering problems since two decades. Although lots of AI techniques and approaches are available in mechanical engineering, there isn’t any survey aiming to review the existing works, systems and applications in the field of fracture mechanics. In this paper, the state of the art of five AI methods which are used in the field of fracture mechanics, is surveyed. This review is performed from the technical point of view on particular applications of artificial neural networks, Bayesian networks, genetic algorithms, fuzzy logic and case-based reasoning.

After an overview of AI methods, sub-domains of engineering fracture mechanics with respect to the fault and failure analysis are described. The existing works from 1990 to 2016 are analysed and discussed in four categories as sub-domains of fracture mechanics: (a …