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Accurate constitutive models of soft materials are crucial for understanding their mechanical behavior and ensuring reliable predictions in the design process. To this end, scientific machine learning research has produced flexible and…

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Modeling nonlinear spatiotemporal dynamical systems has primarily relied on partial differential equations (PDEs). However, the explicit formulation of PDEs for many underexplored processes, such as climate systems, biochemical reaction and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Chengping Rao , Hao Sun , Yang Liu

Modeling the traffic dynamics is essential for understanding and predicting the traffic spatiotemporal evolution. However, deriving the partial differential equation (PDE) models that capture these dynamics is challenging due to their…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-05 Zihang Wei , Yunlong Zhang , Chenxi Liu , Yang Zhou

Driven by the need to accelerate numerical simulations, the use of machine learning techniques is rapidly growing in the field of computational solid mechanics. Their application is especially advantageous in concurrent multiscale finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-22 M. A. Maia , I. B. C. M. Rocha , P. Kerfriden , F. P. van der Meer

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…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Asghar A. Jadoon , Knut A. Meyer , Jan N. Fuhg

Neural network modules conditioned by known priors can be effectively trained and combined to represent systems with nonlinear dynamics. This work explores a novel formulation for data-efficient learning of deep control-oriented nonlinear…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-01-07 Elliott Skomski , Soumya Vasisht , Colby Wight , Aaron Tuor , Jan Drgona , Draguna Vrabie

For more than 100 years, chemical, physical, and material scientists have proposed competing constitutive models to best characterize the behavior of natural and man-made materials in response to mechanical loading. Now, computer science…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Kevin Linka , Ellen Kuhl

We propose a novel approach to model viscoelasticity materials using neural networks, which capture rate-dependent and nonlinear constitutive relations. However, inputs and outputs of the neural networks are not directly observable, and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-05-12 Kailai Xu , Alexandre M. Tartakovsky , Jeff Burghardt , Eric Darve

Data-driven models based on deep learning algorithms intend to overcome the limitations of traditional constitutive modelling by directly learning from data. However, the need for extensive data that collate the full state of the material…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-12-27 Filippo Masi , Itai Einav

Embeddings provide low-dimensional representations that organize complex function spaces and support generalization. They provide a geometric representation that supports efficient retrieval, comparison, and generalization. In this work we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Pedro Tarancón-Álvarez , Leonid Sarieddine , Pavlos Protopapas , Raul Jimenez

Accurately modeling the mechanical behavior of materials is crucial for numerous engineering applications. The quality of these models depends directly on the accuracy of the constitutive law that defines the stress-strain relation.…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-18 Zhichao Han , Mohit Pundir , Olga Fink , David S. Kammer

Microstructural evolution is a key aspect of understanding and exploiting the structure-property-performance relation of materials. Modeling microstructure evolution usually relies on coarse-grained simulations with evolution principles…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-09-01 Kaiqi Yang , Yifan Cao , Youtian Zhang , Ming Tang , Daniel Aberg , Babak Sadigh , Fei Zhou

In the present work, a hyperelastic constitutive model based on neural networks is proposed which fulfills all common constitutive conditions by construction, and in particular, is applicable to compressible material behavior. Using…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Lennart Linden , Dominik K. Klein , Karl A. Kalina , Jörg Brummund , Oliver Weeger , Markus Kästner

Constitutive modelling is crucial for engineering design and simulations to accurately describe material behavior. However, traditional phenomenological models often struggle to capture the complexities of real materials under varying…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Tushar , Sawan Kumar , Souvik Chakraborty

We study a class of nonlocal, energy-driven dynamical models that govern the motion of closed, embedded curves from both an energetic and dynamical perspective. Our energetic results provide a variety of ways to understand physically…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-11-29 James H. von Brecht , Ryan Blair

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…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Kerem Ciftci , Klaus Hackl

The calibration of solid constitutive models with full-field experimental data is a long-standing challenge, especially in materials which undergo large deformation. In this paper, we propose a physics-informed deep-learning framework for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Craig M. Hamel , Kevin N. Long , Sharlotte L. B. Kramer

We present a computational technique for modeling the evolution of dynamical systems in a reduced basis, with a focus on the challenging problem of modeling partially-observed partial differential equations (PDEs) on high-dimensional…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-12-25 Victor Churchill

A nonlocal subgrid-scale stress (SGS) model is developed based on the convolution neural network (CNN), a powerful supervised data-driven approach. The CNN is an ideal approach to naturally consider nonlocal spatial information in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-01-27 Bo Liu , Huiyang Yu , Haibo Huang , Xi-Yun Lu

Elasticity images map biomechanical properties of soft tissues to aid in the detection and diagnosis of pathological states. In particular, quasi-static ultrasonic (US) elastography techniques use force-displacement measurements acquired…

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