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most citedDenoising diffusion algorithm for inverse design of microstructures with fine-tuned nonlinear material properties

90 citations · 305 across the 20 of their papers we have counts for

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21 papers

math.NA2025

Mixing Data-Driven and Physics-Based Constitutive Models using Uncertainty-Driven Phase Fields

J. Storm, W. Sun, I. B. C. M. Rocha +1

There is a high interest in accelerating multiscale models using data-driven surrogate modeling techniques. Creating a large training dataset encompassing all relevant load scenari…

cond-mat.soft2025

Towards scientific machine learning for granular material simulations -- challenges and opportunities

Marc Fransen, Andreas Fürst, Deepak Tunuguntla +21

Micro-scale mechanisms, such as inter-particle and particle-fluid interactions, govern the behaviour of granular systems. While particle-scale simulations provide detailed insights…

cs.CE2024★ 4 cited

Neural networks meet anisotropic hyperelasticity: A framework based on generalized structure tensors and isotropic tensor functions

Karl A. Kalina, Jörg Brummund, WaiChing Sun +1

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 e…

cs.CE2024★ 5 cited

A review on data-driven constitutive laws for solids

Jan Niklas Fuhg, Govinda Anantha Padmanabha, Nikolaos Bouklas +6

This review article highlights state-of-the-art data-driven techniques to discover, encode, surrogate, or emulate constitutive laws that describe the path-independent and path-depe…

cs.LG2024

Physics-Informed Diffusion Models

Jan-Hendrik Bastek, WaiChing Sun, Dennis M. Kochmann

Generative models such as denoising diffusion models are quickly advancing their ability to approximate highly complex data distributions. They are also increasingly leveraged in s…

cs.CE2024★ 2 cited

Viscoelasticty with physics-augmented neural networks: Model formulation and training methods without prescribed internal variables

Max Rosenkranz, Karl A. Kalina, Jörg Brummund +2

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…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Prediction of Effective Elastic Moduli of Rocks using Graph Neural Networks

Jaehong Chung, Rasool Ahmad, WaiChing Sun +2

This study presents a Graph Neural Networks (GNNs)-based approach for predicting the effective elastic moduli of rocks from their digital CT-scan images. We use the Mapper algorith…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023

Prediction of Yield Surface of Single Crystal Copper from Discrete Dislocation Dynamics and Geometric Learning

Wu-Rong Jian, Mian Xiao, WaiChing Sun +1

A yield surface of a material is a set of critical stress conditions beyond which macroscopic plastic deformation begins. For crystalline solids, plastic deformation occurs through…

cs.CE2023★ 1 cited

Physics-constrained symbolic model discovery for polyconvex incompressible hyperelastic materials

Bahador Bahmani, WaiChing Sun

We present a machine learning framework capable of consistently inferring mathematical expressions of hyperelastic energy functionals for incompressible materials from sparse exper…

cs.CE2023★ 3 cited

Neural network-based multiscale modeling of finite strain magneto-elasticity with relaxed convexity criteria

Karl A. Kalina, Philipp Gebhart, Jörg Brummund +3

We present a framework for the multiscale modeling of finite strain magneto-elasticity based on physics-augmented neural networks (NNs). By using a set of problem specific invarian…

cs.CE2023★ 42 cited

Discovering interpretable elastoplasticity models via the neural polynomial method enabled symbolic regressions

Bahador Bahmani, Hyoung Suk Suh, WaiChing Sun

Conventional neural network elastoplasticity models are often perceived as lacking interpretability. This paper introduces a two-step machine learning approach that returns mathema…

cs.CE2023

Synthesizing realistic sand assemblies with denoising diffusion in latent space

Nikolaos N. Vlassis, WaiChing Sun, Khalid A. Alshibli +1

The shapes and morphological features of grains in sand assemblies have far-reaching implications in many engineering applications, such as geotechnical engineering, computer anima…

cs.LG2023★ 90 cited

Denoising diffusion algorithm for inverse design of microstructures with fine-tuned nonlinear material properties

Nikolaos N. Vlassis, WaiChing Sun

In this paper, we introduce a denoising diffusion algorithm to discover microstructures with nonlinear fine-tuned properties. Denoising diffusion probabilistic models are generativ…

cs.LG2022★ 2 cited

Design of experiments for the calibration of history-dependent models via deep reinforcement learning and an enhanced Kalman filter

Ruben Villarreal, Nikolaos N. Vlassis, Nhon N. Phan +5

Experimental data is costly to obtain, which makes it difficult to calibrate complex models. For many models an experimental design that produces the best calibration given a limit…

cs.LG2022★ 44 cited

Geometric deep learning for computational mechanics Part II: Graph embedding for interpretable multiscale plasticity

Nikolaos N. Vlassis, WaiChing Sun

The history-dependent behaviors of classical plasticity models are often driven by internal variables evolved according to phenomenological laws. The difficulty to interpret how th…

cs.LG2021★ 31 cited

Manifold embedding data-driven mechanics

Bahador Bahmani, WaiChing Sun

This article introduces a new data-driven approach that leverages a manifold embedding generated by the invertible neural network to improve the robustness, efficiency, and accurac…

cs.CE2021

MD-inferred neural network monoclinic finite-strain hyperelasticity models for -HMX: Sobolev training and validation against physical constraints

Nikolaos N. Vlassis, Puhan Zhao, Ran Ma +2

We present a machine learning framework to train and validate neural networks to predict the anisotropic elastic response of the monoclinic organic molecular crystal -HMX in the…

physics.geo-ph2021★ 49 cited

Multi-phase-field microporomechanics model for simulating ice lens growth and thaw in frozen soil

Hyoung Suk Suh, WaiChing Sun

This article presents a multi-phase-field poromechanics model that simulates the growth and thaw of ice lenses and the resultant frozen heave and thaw settlement in multi-constitue…

cs.LG2021★ 14 cited

Training multi-objective/multi-task collocation physics-informed neural network with student/teachers transfer learnings

Bahador Bahmani, WaiChing Sun

This paper presents a PINN training framework that employs (1) pre-training steps that accelerates and improve the robustness of the training of physics-informed neural network wit…

cs.LG2021

Data-driven discovery of interpretable causal relations for deep learning material laws with uncertainty propagation

Xiao Sun, Bahador Bahmani, Nikolaos N. Vlassis +2

This paper presents a computational framework that generates ensemble predictive mechanics models with uncertainty quantification (UQ). We first develop a causal discovery algorith…

physics.geo-ph2021★ 17 cited

Equivariant geometric learning for digital rock physics: estimating formation factor and effective permeability tensors from Morse graph

Chen Cai, Nikolaos Vlassis, Lucas Magee +6

We present a SE(3)-equivariant graph neural network (GNN) approach that directly predicting the formation factor and effective permeability from micro-CT images. FFT solvers are es…