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20142026
most citedUnsupervised discovery of interpretable hyperelastic constitutive laws

264 citations · 1.5k across the 33 of their papers we have counts for

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34 papers

physics.app-ph2026

An associated model of Coulomb friction based on the real area of contact

Manon Thbaut, Laura De Lorenzis

Coulomb friction is a non-associated law: it contains a threshold that depends on the contact pressure, i.e. a stress that is not conjugate to any internal variable, hence it admit…

cs.CE2026

On phase-field regularization in dynamic fracture with brittle and cohesive formulations

Jonas Heinzmann, Francesco Vicentini, Pietro Carrara +1

Phase-field models of fracture are widely used for simulating crack nucleation and propagation, yet the role of the phase-field regularization in the dynamic regime is not fully un…

cs.LG2026

Imposing Boundary Conditions on Neural Operators via Learned Function Extensions

Sepehr Mousavi, Siddhartha Mishra, Laura De Lorenzis

Neural operators have emerged as powerful surrogates for the solution of partial differential equations (PDEs), yet their ability to handle general, highly variable boundary condit…

physics.app-ph2025

Variational phase-field modeling of fracture and fatigue in shape memory alloys: a one-dimensional study

Alma Brambilla, Laura De Lorenzis, Lorenza Petrini

We propose a novel variational phase-field model for fracture and fatigue in pseudoelastic shape memory alloys (SMAs). The model, developed in a one-dimensional setting, builds upo…

cs.CE2025

Iterative convergence in phase-field brittle fracture computations: exact line search is all you need

Jonas Heinzmann, Francesco Vicentini, Pietro Carrara +1

Variational phase-field models of brittle fracture pose a local constrained minimization problem of a non-convex energy functional. In the discrete setting, the problem is most oft…

math.NA2024★ 8 cited

Lattice Boltzmann for linear elastodynamics: periodic problems and Dirichlet boundary conditions

Oliver Boolakee, Martin Geier, Laura De Lorenzis

We propose a new second-order accurate lattice Boltzmann formulation for linear elastodynamics that is stable for arbitrary combinations of material parameters under a CFL-like con…

cs.CE2024★ 10 cited

Calibration and Validation of a Phase-Field Model of Brittle Fracture within the Damage Mechanics Challenge

Jonas Heinzmann, Pietro Carrara, Chenyi Luo +6

In the context of the Damage Mechanics Challenge, we adopt a phase-field model of brittle fracture to blindly predict the behavior up to failure of a notched three-point-bending sp…

cs.CE2024★ 41 cited

Reduced and All-at-Once Approaches for Model Calibration and Discovery in Computational Solid Mechanics

Ulrich Römer, Stefan Hartmann, Jendrik-Alexander Tröger +4

In the framework of solid mechanics, the task of deriving material parameters from experimental data has recently re-emerged with the progress in full-field measurement capabilitie…

physics.app-ph2024★ 3 cited

Phase-Field Modeling of Fracture with Physics-Informed Deep Learning

M. Manav, R. Molinaro, S. Mishra +1

We explore the potential of the deep Ritz method to learn complex fracture processes such as quasistatic crack nucleation, propagation, kinking, branching, and coalescence within t…

cs.CE2024★ 21 cited

An adaptive acceleration scheme for phase-field fatigue computations

Jonas Heinzmann, Pietro Carrara, Marreddy Ambati +2

Phase-field models of fatigue are capable of reproducing the main phenomenology of fatigue behavior. However, phase-field computations in the high-cycle fatigue regime are prohibit…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 1 cited

The Language of Hyperelastic Materials

Georgios Kissas, Siddhartha Mishra, Eleni Chatzi +1

The automated discovery of constitutive laws forms an emerging research area, that focuses on automatically obtaining symbolic expressions describing the constitutive behavior of s…

cond-mat.soft2024

Dehydration drives damage in the freezing of brittle hydrogels

Shaohua Yang, Dominic Gerber, Yanxia Feng +6

It is widely known that freezing breaks soft, wet materials. However, the mechanism underlying this damage is still not clear. To understand this process, we freeze model, brittle…

cs.CE2023★ 5 cited

Enhanced Floating Isogeometric Analysis

Helge C. Hille, Siddhant Kumar, Laura De Lorenzis

The numerical simulation of additive manufacturing techniques promises the acceleration of costly experimental procedures to identify suitable process parameters. We recently propo…

q-bio.QM2023★ 57 cited

Automated discovery of interpretable hyperelastic material models for human brain tissue with EUCLID

Moritz Flaschel, Huitian Yu, Nina Reiter +5

We propose an automated computational algorithm for simultaneous model selection and parameter identification for the hyperelastic mechanical characterization of human brain tissue…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 16 cited

Single-test evaluation of directional elastic properties of anisotropic structured materials

Jagannadh Boddapati, Moritz Flaschel, Siddhant Kumar +2

When the elastic properties of structured materials become direction-dependent, the number of their descriptors increases. For example, in two-dimensions, the anisotropic behavior…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 18 cited

Neural Cellular Automata for Solidification Microstructure Modelling

Jian Tang, Siddhant Kumar, Laura De Lorenzis +1

We propose Neural Cellular Automata (NCA) to simulate the microstructure development during the solidification process in metals. Based on convolutional neural networks, NCA can le…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 60 cited

Automated identification of linear viscoelastic constitutive laws with EUCLID

Enzo Marino, Moritz Flaschel, Siddhant Kumar +1

We extend EUCLID, a computational strategy for automated material model discovery and identification, to linear viscoelasticity. For this case, we perform a priori model selection…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 168 cited

Automated discovery of generalized standard material models with EUCLID

Moritz Flaschel, Siddhant Kumar, Laura De Lorenzis

We extend the scope of our approach for unsupervised automated discovery of material laws (EUCLID) to the case of a material belonging to an unknown class of behavior. To this end,…

math.NA2022★ 18 cited

A new lattice Boltzmann scheme for linear elastic solids: periodic problems

Oliver Boolakee, Martin Geier, Laura De Lorenzis

We propose a new second-order accurate lattice Boltzmann scheme that solves the quasi-static equations of linear elasticity in two dimensions. In contrast to previous works, our fo…

cs.LG2022★ 175 cited

NN-EUCLID: deep-learning hyperelasticity without stress data

Prakash Thakolkaran, Akshay Joshi, Yiwen Zheng +3

We propose a new approach for unsupervised learning of hyperelastic constitutive laws with physics-consistent deep neural networks. In contrast to supervised learning, which assume…

cs.CE2022★ 1 cited

Bayesian-EUCLID: discovering hyperelastic material laws with uncertainties

Akshay Joshi, Prakash Thakolkaran, Yiwen Zheng +4

Within the scope of our recent approach for Efficient Unsupervised Constitutive Law Identification and Discovery (EUCLID), we propose an unsupervised Bayesian learning framework fo…

cs.CE2022★ 125 cited

Discovering plasticity models without stress data

Moritz Flaschel, Siddhant Kumar, Laura De Lorenzis

We propose a new approach for data-driven automated discovery of material laws, which we call EUCLID (Efficient Unsupervised Constitutive Law Identification and Discovery), and we…

physics.app-ph2022★ 25 cited

Phase-field modeling of brittle fracture in heterogeneous bars

Francesco Vicentini, Pietro Carrara, Laura De Lorenzis

We investigate phase-field modeling of brittle fracture in a one-dimensional bar featuring a continuous variation of elastic and/or fracture properties along its axis. Our main goa…

cs.CE2021★ 8 cited

Floating Isogeometric Analysis

Helge C. Hille, Siddhant Kumar, Laura De Lorenzis

We propose Floating Isogeometric Analysis (FLIGA), which extends the concepts of IGA to Lagrangian extreme deformation analysis. The method is based on a novel tensor-product const…