A review on data-driven constitutive laws for solids

JN Fuhg, G Anantha Padmanabha, N Bouklas… - … Methods in Engineering, 2024 - Springer
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 …

Physics-informed Neural Networks (PINN) for computational solid mechanics: Numerical frameworks and applications

H Hu, L Qi, X Chao - Thin-Walled Structures, 2024 - Elsevier
For solving the computational solid mechanics problems, despite significant advances have
been achieved through the numerical discretization of partial differential equations (PDEs) …

Exploring energy minimization to model strain localization as a strong discontinuity using Physics Informed Neural Networks

O León, V Rivera, A Vázquez-Patiño, J Ulloa… - Computer Methods in …, 2025 - Elsevier
We explore the possibilities of using energy minimization for the numerical modeling of
strain localization in solids as a sharp discontinuity in the displacement field. For this …

The novel graph transformer-based surrogate model for learning physical systems

B Feng, XP Zhou - Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Predicting physical systems over long-term horizons has a significant challenge. Although
prevalent machine learning techniques, such as Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) …

DEDEM: Discontinuity Embedded Deep Energy Method for solving fracture mechanics problems

L Zhao, Q Shao - arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.11346, 2024 - arxiv.org
Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) have aroused great attention for its ability to
address forward and inverse problems of partial differential equations. However …

A novel graph networks based learnable physics engines for crack propagation and coalescence in solid mechanics

K Feng, XP Zhou - Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 2025 - Elsevier
Simulating evolution process of physical systems is notoriously difficult due to complex
geometry and the strong nonlinearity of interactions (eg containing cracks). In this work, a …

Predicting Crack Nucleation and Propagation in Brittle Materials Using Deep Operator Networks with Diverse Trunk Architectures

E Kiyani, M Manav, N Kadivar, L De Lorenzis… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Phase-field modeling reformulates fracture problems as energy minimization problems and
enables a comprehensive characterization of the fracture process, including crack …

Finite-PINN: A Physics-Informed Neural Network Architecture for Solving Solid Mechanics Problems with General Geometries

H Li, Y Miao, ZS Khodaei, MH Aliabadi - arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.09453, 2024 - arxiv.org
PINN models have demonstrated impressive capabilities in addressing fluid PDE problems,
and their potential in solid mechanics is beginning to emerge. This study identifies two key …

Exploring the ability of the Deep Ritz Method to model strain localization as a sharp discontinuity

O León, V Rivera, A Vázquez-Patiño, J Ulloa… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
We present an exploratory study of the possibilities of the Deep Ritz Method (DRM) for the
modeling of strain localization in solids as a sharp discontinuity in the displacement field. For …