A data augmentation method for multiaxial fatigue life prediction based on physics-informed tabular generative adversarial network

Abstract Currently, in the multiaxial fatigue life prediction problem, machine learning (ML) algorithms are still limited by small samples. For ML tasks requiring large amounts of data, this paper proposes a Conditional Tabular Generative Adversarial Network (CTGAN) model using a physical equation as a generation constraint. The proposed method can make synthetic samples satisfy specific physical knowledge. The method is evaluated using two datasets of different materials. ML-based algorithms verify the feasibility of using synthetic datasets for life prediction. Verification analysis shows that the proposed method successfully synthesizes high-quality multiaxial fatigue datasets and effectively improves the prediction accuracy of ML algorithms.