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The accurate and efficient prediction of crack propagation in dielectric materials is a critical challenge in structural health monitoring and the design of smart systems. This work presents a hybrid modeling framework that combines an…

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Accurate 3D reconstruction of deformable soft tissues is essential for surgical robotic perception. However, low-texture surfaces, specular highlights, and instrument occlusions often fragment geometric continuity, posing a challenge for…

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Evaluating the mechanical response of fiber-reinforced composites can be extremely time consuming and expensive. Machine learning (ML) techniques offer a means for faster predictions via models trained on existing input-output pairs and…

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Identifying damage of structural systems is typically characterized as an inverse problem which might be ill-conditioned due to aleatory and epistemic uncertainties induced by measurement noise and modeling error. Sparse representation can…

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We investigate fully self-consistent multiscale quantum-classical algorithms on current generation superconducting quantum computers, in a unified approach to tackle the correlated electronic structure of large systems in both quantum…

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Accurate predictions of the failure progression of structural materials is critical for preventing failure-induced accidents. Despite considerable mechanics modeling-based efforts, accurate prediction remains a challenging task in…

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We develop a statistically robust framework for reconstructing metal--semiconductor contact regions using topological gradients. The inverse problem is formulated as the identification of an unknown contact region from boundary measurements…

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All biological organisms, from plants to living creatures, can heal minor wounds and damage. The realization of a similar self-healing capacity in inorganic materials has been a design target for many decades. This would represent a…

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Soft materials such as rubbers, hydrogels, and biological tissues undergo damage in the form of stiffness degradation without apparent changes in their stress-free geometry. Accurate simulation of this behavior is critical in applications…

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Deep learning has demonstrated superb efficacy in processing imaging data, yet its suitability in solving challenging inverse problems in scientific imaging has not been fully explored. Of immense interest is the determination of local…

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Shape-morphing structures possess the ability to change their shapes from one state to another, and therefore, offer great potential for a broad range of applications. A typical paradigm of morphing is transforming from an initial…

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