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Constitutive models that describe the mechanical behavior of soft tissues have advanced greatly over the past few decades. These expert models are generalizable and require the calibration of a number of parameters to fit experimental data.…
The mathematical formulation of constitutive models to describe the path-dependent, i.e., inelastic, behavior of materials is a challenging task and has been a focus in mechanics research for several decades. There have been increased…
Machine learning approaches informed by physics have offered new insights into the discovery of constitutive models from data, helping overcome some limitations of traditional constitutive modelling while reducing the cost of otherwise…
When characterizing materials, it can be important to not only predict their mechanical properties, but also to estimate the probability distribution of these properties across a set of samples. Constitutive neural networks allow for the…
A novel data-driven constitutive modeling approach is proposed, which combines the physics-informed nature of modeling based on continuum thermodynamics with the benefits of machine learning. This approach is demonstrated on…
The elastic properties of materials derive from their electronic and atomic nature. However, simulating bulk materials fully at these scales is not feasible, so that typically homogenized continuum descriptions are used instead. A seamless…
While data-driven methods offer significant promise for modeling complex materials, they often face challenges in generalizing across diverse physical scenarios and maintaining physical consistency. To address these limitations, we propose…
We present a comparison between two approaches to modelling hyperelastic material behaviour using data. The first approach is a novel approach based on Data-driven Computational Mechanics (DDCM) that completely bypasses the definition of a…
Inferring the mechanical properties of soft tissues from measured deformations is a fundamental challenge in elastography. A rarely examined assumption underlying existing approaches is that the assumed constitutive law correctly describes…
Model-free data-driven computational mechanics replaces phenomenological constitutive functions by numerical simulations based on data sets of representative samples in stress-strain space. The distance of strain and stress pairs from the…
The accuracy and fidelity of deformation simulations are highly dependent upon the underlying constitutive material model. Commonly used linear or nonlinear constitutive material models only cover a tiny part of possible material behavior.…
Constitutive modeling lies at the core of mechanics, allowing us to map strains onto stresses for a material in a given mechanical setting. Historically, researchers relied on phenomenological modeling where simple mathematical…
Constitutive models play a crucial role in materials science as they describe the behavior of the materials in mathematical forms. Over the last few decades, the rapid development of manufacturing technologies have led to the discovery of…
Biological soft tissues exhibit substantial inter-subject variability, making the automation of constitutive material modeling essential for patient-specific analysis and design. Such materials are not only highly nonlinear but also display…
Constitutive laws relate fluid stress to deformation and underpin predictions of non-Newtonian behavior in industrial and biological fluids. Standard characterization relies on measurements in idealized flows that often miss physics…
Commonly used linear and nonlinear constitutive material models in deformation simulation contain many simplifications and only cover a tiny part of possible material behavior. In this work we propose a framework for learning customized…
Constitutive and closure models play important roles in computational mechanics and computational physics in general. Classical constitutive models for solid and fluid materials are typically local, algebraic equations or flow rules…
Accurately simulating soft tissue deformation is crucial for surgical training, pre-operative planning, and real-time haptic feedback systems. While physics-based models such as the finite element method (FEM) provide high-fidelity results,…
Soft tissue simulation in virtual environments is becoming increasingly important for medical applications. However, the high deformability of soft tissue poses significant challenges. Existing methods rely on segmentation, meshing and…
We present Neural Stochastic Contraction Metrics (NSCM), a new design framework for provably-stable robust control and estimation for a class of stochastic nonlinear systems. It uses a spectrally-normalized deep neural network to construct…