English
Related papers

Related papers: Constitutive model characterization and discovery …

200 papers

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…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-04-16 Bahador Bahmani

Efficient and accurate learning of constitutive laws is crucial for accurately predicting the mechanical behavior of materials under complex loading conditions. Accurate model calibration hinges on a delicate interplay between the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Royal C. Ihuaenyi , Wei Li , Martin Z. Bazant , Juner Zhu

We propose a general hybrid physics-informed machine learning framework for modeling nonlinear, history-dependent viscoelastic behavior under multiaxial cyclic loading. The approach is built on a generalized internal state variable-based…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-18 Alireza Ostadrahimi , Amir Teimouri , Kshitiz Upadhyay , Guoqiang Li

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…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Jeremy A. McCulloch , Ellen Kuhl

We applied physics-informed neural networks to solve the constitutive relations for nonlinear, path-dependent material behavior. As a result, the trained network not only satisfies all thermodynamic constraints but also instantly provides…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Shahed Rezaei , Ahmad Moeineddin , Ali Harandi

In the present work, a machine learning based constitutive model for electro-mechanically coupled material behavior at finite deformations is proposed. Using different sets of invariants as inputs, an internal energy density is formulated…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Dominik K. Klein , Rogelio Ortigosa , Jesús Martínez-Frutos , Oliver Weeger

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…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-06-16 Xu-Hui Zhou , Jiequn Han , Heng Xiao

The major challenge in determining a hyperelastic model for a given material is the choice of invariants and the selection how the strain energy function depends functionally on these invariants. Here we introduce a new data-driven…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-19 Denisa Martonová , Alain Goriely , Ellen Kuhl

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.…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-08-16 Bin Wang , Paul Kry , Yuanmin Deng , Uri Ascher , Hui Huang , Baoquan Chen

Identifying constitutive parameters in engineering and biological materials, particularly those with intricate geometries and mechanical behaviors, remains a longstanding challenge. The recent advent of Physics-Informed Neural Networks…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-06-25 Siyuan Song , Hanxun Jin

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…

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…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Max Rosenkranz , Karl A. Kalina , Jörg Brummund , Markus Kästner

Traditional computational methods, such as the finite element analysis, have provided valuable insights into uncovering the underlying mechanisms of brain physical behaviors. However, precise predictions of brain physics require effective…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Jixin Hou , Nicholas Filla , Xianyan Chen , Mir Jalil Razavi , Tianming Liu , Xianqiao Wang

Constitutive model discovery refers to the task of identifying an appropriate model structure, usually from a predefined model library, while simultaneously inferring its material parameters. The data used for model discovery are measured…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-27 David Anton , Henning Wessels , Ulrich Römer , Alexander Henkes , Jorge-Humberto Urrea-Quintero

We present a physics-based neural network framework for the discovery of constitutive models in fully coupled thermomechanics. In contrast to classical formulations based on the Helmholtz energy, we adopt the internal energy and a…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Hagen Holthusen , Paul Steinmann , Ellen Kuhl

A complete approach for the determination of the complex constitutive behaviour of textile composites through finite element simulation is presented in this paper. In this work, simulations of different loading cases are carried out on…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-12-18 Damien Durville

The identification of constitutive laws is ubiquitous in engineering: in modeling of materials where experimental data are fitted to mathematical models or learning surrogate models to beat the FE\textsuperscript{2} computational cost of…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-15 Mayank Raj , Lianghao Cao , Andrew Stuart , Kaushik Bhattacharya

A dual-continuum model can offer a practical approach to understanding first-order behaviours of poromechanically coupled multiscale systems. To close the governing equations, constitutive equations with models to calculate effective…

Geophysics · Physics 2019-10-28 Mark Ashworth , Florian Doster

In the present work, two machine learning based constitutive models for finite deformations are proposed. Using input convex neural networks, the models are hyperelastic, anisotropic and fulfill the polyconvexity condition, which implies…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-11-29 Dominik K. Klein , Mauricio Fernández , Robert J. Martin , Patrizio Neff , Oliver Weeger

The automated discovery of constitutive laws forms an emerging research area, that focuses on automatically obtaining symbolic expressions describing the constitutive behavior of solid materials from experimental data. Existing…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-05-10 Georgios Kissas , Siddhartha Mishra , Eleni Chatzi , Laura De Lorenzis