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We propose a complement to constitutive modeling that augments neural networks with material principles to capture anisotropy and inelasticity at finite strains. The key element is a dual potential that governs dissipation, consistently…

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We present a data-driven framework for the multiscale modeling of anisotropic finite strain elasticity based on physics-augmented neural networks (PANNs). Our approach allows the efficient simulation of materials with complex underlying…

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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…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-19 Filippo Masi

We present an approach for the data-driven modeling of nonlinear viscoelastic materials at small strains which is based on physics-augmented neural networks (NNs) and requires only stress and strain paths for training. The model is built on…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Max Rosenkranz , Karl A. Kalina , Jörg Brummund , WaiChing Sun , Markus Kästner

Recent advances in physics-augmented neural networks have enabled thermodynamically consistent data-driven constitutive modeling of complex inelastic materials. Most existing approaches, however, implicitly adopt a specific thermodynamic…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-28 Reese E. Jones , Jan N. Fuhg

The field of optimal design of linear elastic structures has seen many exciting successes that resulted in new architected materials and structural designs. With the availability of cloud computing, including high-performance computing,…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Diab W. Abueidda , Seid Koric , Nahil A. Sobh

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

We propose a new framework for identifying mechanical properties of heterogeneous materials without a closed-form constitutive equation. Given a full-field measurement of the displacement field, for instance as obtained from digital image…

We introduce HyperCAN, a machine learning framework that utilizes hypernetworks to construct adaptable constitutive artificial neural networks for a wide range of beam-based metamaterials exhibiting diverse mechanical behavior under finite…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Li Zheng , Dennis M. Kochmann , Siddhant Kumar

In the present work, advanced spatial and temporal discretization techniques are tailored to hyperelastic physics-augmented neural networks, i.e., neural network based constitutive models which fulfill all relevant mechanical conditions of…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Marlon Franke , Dominik K. Klein , Oliver Weeger , Peter Betsch

A Physics-Augmented Neural network is trained to model a hyperelastic behavior. The dataset used for the training, validation, and test are displacement-force couples obtained from two experiments on a rubber-like material. One experiment…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Clément Jailin , Antoine Benady , Emmanuel Baranger

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 constitutive modeling frameworks based on neural networks and classical representation theorems have recently gained considerable attention due to their ability to easily incorporate constitutive constraints and their excellent…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-08-23 Jan N. Fuhg , Nikolaos Bouklas , Reese E. Jones

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

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

The aim of this work is to develop a neural network for modelling incompressible hyperelastic behaviour with isotropic damage, the so-called Mullins effect. This is obtained through the use of feed-forward neural networks with special…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-11-21 Martin Zlatić , Marko Čanađija

In the present work, the applicability of physics-augmented neural network (PANN) constitutive models for complex electro-elastic finite element analysis is demonstrated. For the investigations, PANN models for electro-elastic material…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Dominik K. Klein , Rogelio Ortigosa , Jesús Martínez-Frutos , Oliver Weeger

Composite materials often exhibit mechanical anisotropy owing to the material properties or geometrical configurations of the microstructure. This makes their inverse design a two-fold problem. First, we must learn the type and orientation…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Asghar A. Jadoon , Karl A. Kalina , Manuel K. Rausch , Reese Jones , Jan N. Fuhg

We propose a new approach for unsupervised learning of hyperelastic constitutive laws with physics-consistent deep neural networks. In contrast to supervised learning, which assumes the availability of stress-strain pairs, the approach only…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Prakash Thakolkaran , Akshay Joshi , Yiwen Zheng , Moritz Flaschel , Laura De Lorenzis , Siddhant Kumar

In solid mechanics, Data-driven approaches are widely considered as the new paradigm that can overcome the classic problems of constitutive models such as limiting hypothesis, complexity, and high dependence on training data. However,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-11-23 Aref Ghaderi , Vahid Morovati , Roozbeh Dargazany