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We present an approach for synthesising observational data with elastodynamic finite element models by extending the statistical finite element method (statFEM) framework. The proposed formulation adopts a Bayesian filtering approach to…
In this paper, a finite volume approximation scheme is used to solve a non-local macroscopic material flow model in two space dimensions, accounting for the presence of boundaries in the non-local terms. Based on a previous result for the…
This study introduces an innovative Isotropic Elastic Lattice Spring Model (IELSM) that addresses the fundamental limitation of classical lattice spring models: the constraint of fixed Poisson's ratio. By amending the total strain energy…
A coupled hygro-thermo-mechanical computational model is proposed for fibre reinforced polymers, formulated within the framework of Computational Homogenisation (CH). At each macrostructure Gauss point, constitutive matrices for thermal,…
In this paper, we investigate the wave solutions of a stochastic rotating shallow water model. This approximate model provides an interesting simple description of the interplay between waves and random forcing ensuing either from the wind…
Variational autoencoders are among the most popular methods for distilling low-dimensional structure from high-dimensional data, making them increasingly valuable as tools for data exploration and scientific discovery. However, unlike…
Motivated by the elastic-viscous-plastic (EVP) sea-ice model [E. C. Hunke and J. K. Dukowicz, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 27, 9 (1997), 1849--1867], which is used in large-scale numerical climate simulations, we proposed in [D. W. Boutros, X. Liu,…
Disordered network materials abound in both nature and synthetic situations while rigorous analysis of their nonlinear mechanical behaviors still is very challenging. The purpose of this paper is to connect the mathematical framework of…
In this article, we extend the study of embedded corrector problems, that we have previously introduced in the context of the homogenization of scalar diffusive equations, to the context of homogenized elastic properties of materials. This…
The uncertainties in material and other properties of structures are usually spatially correlated. We introduce an efficient technique for representing and processing spatially correlated random fields in robust topology optimisation of…
We present a new, stable, mixed finite element (FE) method for linear elastostatics of nearly incompressible solids. The method is the automatic variationally stable FE (AVS-FE) method of Calo, Romkes and Valseth, in which we consider a…
Refractory multi-principal element alloys (RMPEAs) have attracted growing interest for their exceptional high-temperature strength, yet their complex compositions hinder a mechanistic understanding of plastic deformation. Here, we perform…
In this paper, we investigate some micromechanical aspects of elasto-plasticity in heterogeneous geomaterials. The aim is to upscale the elasto-plastic behavior for a representative volume of the material which is indeed a very challenging…
Studies on generalization performance of machine learning algorithms under the scope of information theory suggest that compressed representations can guarantee good generalization, inspiring many compression-based regularization methods.…
This work proposes a hybrid modeling framework based on recurrent neural networks (RNNs) and the finite element (FE) method to approximate model discrepancies in time dependent, multi-fidelity problems, and use the trained hybrid models to…
Fully resolving dynamics of materials with rapidly-varying features involves expensive fine-scale computations which need to be conducted on macroscopic scales. The theory of homogenization provides an approach to derive effective…
Quantitative characterization of tissue properties, known as elasticity imaging, can be cast as solving an ill-posed inverse problem. The finite element methods (FEMs) in magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) imaging are based on solving a…
We consider a simple lattice spring model in which every spring is elastoplastic and is capable to conduct current. The elasticity bounds of spring $i$ are taken as $[-c_i,c_i]$ and the resistance of spring $i$ is taken as $1/c_i$, which…
We develop coarse-grained particle approaches for studying the elastic mechanics of vesicles with heterogeneous membranes having phase-separated domains. We perform simulations both of passive shape fluctuations and of active systems where…
The aim of this work is to efficiently and robustly solve the statistical inverse problem related to the identification of the elastic properties at both macroscopic and mesoscopic scales of heterogeneous anisotropic materials with a…