Comment on ‘Composition-based aluminum alloy selection using an artificial neural network’

Abstract This article comments on the article ‘Composition-based aluminum alloy selection using an artificial neural network previously published in this journal. It is shown that the input information of the modelling is much too limited and the selection procedure is simplistic and not applicable or relevant to the actual selection procedures for aerospace aluminum alloys. The modelling has been done without sufficient engineering knowledge (almost none) about the properties, selection criteria, alloy compositions and processing of aerospace structural aluminum alloys.