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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

As a nonlocal extension of continuum mechanics, peridynamics has been widely and effectively applied in different fields where discontinuities in the field variables arise from an initially continuous body. An important component of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-22 Xiao Xu , Marta D'Elia , John T. Foster

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

Human-robot co-manipulation of soft materials, such as fabrics, composites, and sheets of paper/cardboard, is a challenging operation that presents several relevant industrial applications. Estimating the deformation state of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Giorgio Nicola , Enrico Villagrossi , Nicola Pedrocchi

The modeling of realistic magnetic materials requires the inclusion of defects. Based on the pseudospectral Landau-Lifshitz description of magnetisation dynamics, we propose a statistical model that takes into account defects, specifically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-12 C. Eagan , M. Copus , E. Iacocca

For multilayer structures, interfacial failure is one of the most important elements related to device reliability. For cohesive zone modelling, traction-separation relations represent the adhesive interactions across interfaces. However,…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Congjie Wei , Jiaxin Zhang , Kenneth M. Liechti , Chenglin Wu

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

Process-structure-property relationships are fundamental in materials science and engineering and are key to the development of new and improved materials. Symbolic regression serves as a powerful tool for uncovering mathematical models…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-12 Evgeniya Kabliman , Gabriel Kronberger

A central challenge in materials science is characterizing chemical processes that are elusive to direct measurement, particularly in functional materials operating under realistic conditions. Here, we demonstrate that mechanical strain…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-04 Royal C. Ihuaenyi , Hongbo Zhao , Ruqing Fang , Ruobing Bai , Martin Z. Bazant , Juner Zhu

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

Can we learn the physics of matter in motion directly from images and video--and trust it? Answering this question requires integrating experiments, physics-based simulation, and data across traditionally separate disciplines. Much of this…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Hagen Holthusen , Kevin Linka , Ellen Kuhl

We present a physics informed deep neural network (DNN) method for estimating parameters and unknown physics (constitutive relationships) in partial differential equation (PDE) models. We use PDEs in addition to measurements to train DNNs…

Constitutive modeling based on continuum mechanics theory has been a classical approach for modeling the mechanical responses of materials. However, when constitutive laws are unknown or when defects and/or high degrees of heterogeneity are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Huaiqian You , Quinn Zhang , Colton J. Ross , Chung-Hao Lee , Yue Yu

In this work we present a hybrid physics-based and data-driven learning approach to construct surrogate models for concurrent multiscale simulations of complex material behavior. We start from robust but inflexible physics-based…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-01 I. B. C. M. Rocha , P. Kerfriden , F. P. van der Meer

Soft biological tissues exhibit a tendency to maintain a preferred state of tensile stress, known as tensional homeostasis, which is restored even after external mechanical stimuli. This macroscopic behavior can be described using the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Hagen Holthusen , Tim Brepols , Kevin Linka , Ellen Kuhl

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

Existing point cloud representation learning methods primarily rely on data-driven strategies to extract geometric information from large amounts of scattered data. However, most methods focus solely on the spatial distribution features of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Zhongyu Chen , Rong Zhao , Xie Han , Xindong Guo , Song Wang , Zherui Qiao

Constitutive models that describe the mechanical behavior of soft tissues have advanced greatly over the past few decades. These expert models are generalizable and require the calibration of a number of parameters to fit experimental data.…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2021-07-13 Vahidullah Tac , Vivek D. Sree , Manuel K. Rausch , Adrian B. Tepole

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

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