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20142026
most citedInverse-design of nonlinear mechanical metamaterials via video denoising diffusion models

246 citations · 987 across the 26 of their papers we have counts for

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31 papers

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

An electromechanically coupled multiphase-field model with generalized kinetic relations for ferroelectrics

Hsu-Cheng Cheng, Dennis M. Kochmann

Classical phase-field models typically use the Allen--Cahn evolution law to model interface motion as a consequence of energy-gradient descent. This implies a linear kinetic relati…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Global DIC-based sample-detector geometry refinement for accurate EBSD indexing

Claire Griesbach, Dennis M. Kochmann

Electron backscatter diffraction is a powerful tool for mapping crystallographic microstructures. However, the primary crux to improving orientation accuracy and applying the techn…

cond-mat.soft2026

Additive Manufacturing-Facilitated Blow Molding for Functional Thin-Walled Polymeric Structures

Junyu Chen, Dotan Ilssar, Dennis M. Kochmann

Thin-walled structures capable of large, reversible deformation are key to multistable structures, origami, kirigami, and soft robotics. However, conventional fabrication technique…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Ferroelectric polarization mapping through pseudosymmetry-sensitive EBSD reindexing

Claire Griesbach, Tizian Scharsach, Morgan Trassin +1

Ferroelectric materials exhibit a switchable, spontaneous polarization at the unit cell level--an attractive property utilized in many emerging technologies including, among others…

cs.LG2025

Deep learning-aided inverse design of porous metamaterials

Phu Thien Nguyen, Yousef Heider, Dennis M. Kochmann +1

The ultimate aim of the study is to explore the inverse design of porous metamaterials using a deep learning-based generative framework. Specifically, we develop a property-variati…

cond-mat.dis-nn2025

Predicting temperature-dependent failure and transformation zones in 2D silica glass through quasistatic Gaussian Phase Packets

Miguel Spínola, Shashank Saxena, Franz Bamer +1

The athermal quasistatic (AQS) method is a powerful technique to study the mechanical behavior of disordered systems. However, its applicability is limited to temperatures near zer…

physics.app-ph2025★ 1 cited

Graded phononic metamaterials: Scalable design meets scalable microfabrication

Charles Dorn, Vignesh Kannan, Ute Drechsler +1

Metamaterials are a new generation of advanced materials, exhibiting engineered microstructures that enable customized material properties not found in nature. The dynamics of meta…

cs.CE2025★ 5 cited

Algebraic Language Models for Inverse Design of Metamaterials via Diffusion Transformers

Li Zheng, Siddhant Kumar, Dennis M. Kochmann

Generative machine learning models have revolutionized material discovery by capturing complex structure-property relationships, yet extending these approaches to the inverse desig…

physics.app-ph2025

Microscale architected materials for elastic wave guiding: Fabrication and dynamic characterization across length and time scales

Vignesh Kannan, Charles Dorn, Ute Drechsler +1

We present an experimental protocol for the fabrication and characterization of scalable microarchitected elastic waveguides. Using silicon microfabrication techniques, we develop…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Long-term atomistic finite-temperature substitutional diffusion

Shashank Saxena, Prateek Gupta, Dennis M. Kochmann

Simulating long-term mass diffusion kinetics with atomic precision is important to predict chemical and mechanical properties of alloys over time scales of engineering interest in…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Stiff and Deformable Quasicrystalline Architected Materials

Matheus I. N. Rosa, Konstantinos Karapiperis, Kaoutar Radi +1

Architected materials achieve unique mechanical properties through precisely engineered microstructures that minimize material usage. However, a key challenge of low-density materi…

math.AP2024

On a -Structure in Geometrically Linearized Elasticity: Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis and Numerical Simulations

Roman Indergand, Dennis Kochmann, Angkana Rüland +2

We study the rigidity properties of the -structure for the symmetrized gradient from \cite{BFJK94} qualitatively, quantitatively and numerically. More precisely, we complement…

cs.CE2024★ 19 cited

HyperCAN: Hypernetwork-Driven Deep Parameterized Constitutive Models for Metamaterials

Li Zheng, Dennis M. Kochmann, Siddhant Kumar

We introduce HyperCAN, a machine learning framework that utilizes hypernetworks to construct adaptable constitutive artificial neural networks for a wide range of beam-based metama…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 9 cited

Atomistic-informed phase field modeling of magnesium twin growth by disconnections

Yang Hu, Dennis M. Kochmann, Brandon Runnels

The nucleation and propagation of disconnections play an essential role during twin growth. Atomistic methods can reveal such small structural features on twin facets and model the…

cs.CE2024

A mixed-order quasicontinuum approach for beam-based architected materials with application to fracture

Kevin Kraschewski, Gregory P. Phlipot, Dennis M. Kochmann

Predicting the mechanics of large structural networks, such as beam-based architected materials, requires a multiscale computational strategy that preserves information about the d…

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…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 5 cited

Finite-temperature grain boundary properties from quasistatic atomistics

Miguel Spínola, Shashank Saxena, Prateek Gupta +2

Grain boundary (GB) properties greatly influence the mechanical, electrical, and thermal response of polycrystalline materials. Most computational studies of GB properties at finit…

physics.app-ph2023★ 18 cited

Conformally Graded Metamaterials for Elastic Wave Guidance

Charles Dorn, Dennis M. Kochmann

Although metamaterials have been widely used for controlling elastic waves through bandgap engineering, the directed guidance of stress waves in non-periodic structures has remaine…

cs.CE2023★ 205 cited

Unifying the design space and optimizing linear and nonlinear truss metamaterials by generative modeling

Li Zheng, Konstantinos Karapiperis, Siddhant Kumar +1

The rise of machine learning has fueled the discovery of new materials and, especially, metamaterials--truss lattices being their most prominent class. While their tailorable prope…

cs.CE2023★ 246 cited

Inverse-design of nonlinear mechanical metamaterials via video denoising diffusion models

Jan-Hendrik Bastek, Dennis M. Kochmann

The accelerated inverse design of complex material properties - such as identifying a material with a given stress-strain response over a nonlinear deformation path - holds great p…

physics.comp-ph2023

GNN-Assisted Phase Space Integration with Application to Atomistics

Shashank Saxena, Jan-Hendrik Bastek, Miguel Spinola +2

Overcoming the time scale limitations of atomistics can be achieved by switching from the state-space representation of Molecular Dynamics (MD) to a statistical-mechanics-based rep…

cs.CE2022★ 110 cited

Physics-Informed Neural Networks for Shell Structures

Jan-Hendrik Bastek, Dennis M. Kochmann

The numerical modeling of thin shell structures is a challenge, which has been met by a variety of finite element (FE) and other formulations -- many of which give rise to new chal…

cond-mat.other2022★ 30 cited

Topology Optimization of Graded Truss Lattices Based on On-the-Fly Homogenization

Bastian Telgen, Ole Sigmund, Dennis M. Kochmann

We introduce a computational framework for the topology optimization of cellular structures with spatially varying architecture, which is applied to functionally graded truss latti…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 5 cited

Finite-temperature surface elasticity of crystalline solids

Shashank Saxena, Miguel Spinola, Prateek Gupta +1

Surface energies and surface elasticity largely affect the mechanical response of nanostructures as well as the physical phenomenon associated with surfaces such as evaporation and…