A multiscale multi-permeability poroplasticity model linked by recursive homogenizations and deep learning

K Wang, WC Sun - Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Many geological materials, such as shale, mudstone, carbonate rock, limestone and rock
salt are multi-porosity porous media in which pores of different scales may co-exist in the …

Coupled phase-field and plasticity modeling of geological materials: From brittle fracture to ductile flow

J Choo, WC Sun - Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and …, 2018 - Elsevier
The failure behavior of geological materials depends heavily on confining pressure and
strain rate. Under a relatively low confining pressure, these materials tend to fail by brittle …

Smart finite elements: A novel machine learning application

G Capuano, JJ Rimoli - Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Many multiscale finite element formulations can become computationally expensive
because they rely on detailed models of the element's internal displacement field. This issue …

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

NN Vlassis, WC Sun - Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and …, 2023 - Elsevier
The history-dependent behaviors of classical plasticity models are often driven by internal
variables evolved according to phenomenological laws. The difficulty to interpret how these …

SO (3)-invariance of informed-graph-based deep neural network for anisotropic elastoplastic materials

Y Heider, K Wang, WC Sun - Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and …, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper examines the frame-invariance (and the lack thereof) exhibited in simulated
anisotropic elasto-plastic responses generated from supervised machine learning of …

DNN2: A hyper-parameter reinforcement learning game for self-design of neural network based elasto-plastic constitutive descriptions

A Fuchs, Y Heider, K Wang, WC Sun, M Kaliske - Computers & Structures, 2021 - Elsevier
This contribution presents a meta-modeling framework that employs artificial intelligence to
design a neural network that replicates the path-dependent constitutive responses of …

Investigating mesh sensitivity and polycrystalline RVEs in crystal plasticity finite element simulations

H Lim, CC Battaile, JE Bishop, JW Foulk III - International Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Crystal plasticity-finite element method (CP-FEM) is now widely used to understand the
mechanical response of polycrystalline materials. However, quantitative mesh convergence …

A stabilized assumed deformation gradient finite element formulation for strongly coupled poromechanical simulations at finite strain

WC Sun, JT Ostien, AG Salinger - International Journal for …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
An adaptively stabilized finite element scheme is proposed for a strongly coupled hydro‐
mechanical problem in fluid‐infiltrating porous solids at finite strain. We first present the …

Stress representations for tensor basis neural networks: alternative formulations to Finger–Rivlin–Ericksen

JN Fuhg, N Bouklas, RE Jones - … of Computing and …, 2024 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Data-driven constitutive modeling frameworks based on neural networks and classical
representation theorems have recently gained considerable attention due to their ability to …

Computational thermomechanics of crystalline rock, Part I: A combined multi-phase-field/crystal plasticity approach for single crystal simulations

SH Na, WC Sun - Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Rock salt is one of the major materials used for nuclear waste geological disposal. The
desired characteristics of rock salt, ie, high thermal conductivity, low permeability, and self …