The paper introduces a mesh‑free multiresolution deep energy method for phase‑field modeling of brittle fracture. A single neural network represents displacement and phase fields, trained by minimizing incremental energy with multiresolution B‑spline feature encoding and stratified Monte Carlo integration. Across six benchmark problems, the method reproduces load‑displacement curves and crack patterns with high accuracy, outperforming a deep Ritz baseline on a random multi‑crack dataset.
By Han Zhang, Mehrisadat Makki Alamdari, Babak Shahbodagh, Mohammad Vahab, Cosmin Anitescu, Timon Rabczuk, Elena Atroshchenko
arXiv:2606. 19378v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Scientific machine learning (SciML) has emerged as a promising approach for accelerating simulations of complex physical systems, yet achieving physically consistent and generalizable predictions for nonlinear, history-dependent problems remains a central challenge.
By Hyeonbin Moon, Yongjin Choi, Seunghwa Ryu
arXiv:2606. 10909v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reconstructing local stress fields in heterogeneous microstructures under non-linear, history-dependent loading remains a major computational bottleneck in multi-scale simulations.
By Manuel Ricardo Guevara Garban, Yves Chemisky, \'Etienne Pruli\`ere, Micha\"el Cl\'ement, Martin Abendroth, Bj\"orn Kiefer
arXiv:2607. 09382v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This work aims to develop a fast and physically consistent surrogate model for real-time structural health monitoring of fractured elastic domains.
By Rodolphe Barlogis, Ferhat Tamssaouet, Quentin Falcoz, St\'ephane Grieu
arXiv:2606. 08287v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Finite element analysis (FEA) is essential for structural design but remains computationally expensive, particularly when evaluating multiple design iterations or load scenarios.
By Josiah D. Kunz, Kamal Choudhary
The paper introduces a variational, label‑free physics‑informed graph neural network (PI‑GNN) that models heterogeneous solid mechanics by embedding material heterogeneity into the discretization rather than the neural network’s trial field. The PI‑GNN operates on a conforming adaptive mesh graph, assigns constitutive behavior per element, and minimizes the discrete total potential energy without penalty terms or interface weights, yielding a discrete energy equivalent to the finite element Ritz functional. Across small‑strain elasticity and finite‑strain Neo‑Hookean hyperelasticity in 2D and 3D, the method achieves von Mises errors below 3.58 % over a wide stiffness‑contrast range, outperforming strong‑form PINNs and reducing displacement errors significantly.
By Aashay Rajan Yadav, Amiya Prakash Das, Ratna Kumar Annabattula
arXiv:2608. 02036v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Extending the neural-operator element method from individually trained, fixed-geometry neural elements to a library of reusable, geometry-parameterized element types fails structurally: a field-predicting operator trained by value regression induces an energy whose assembled Hessian is indefinite, and Newton converges to spurious minima (247% error) even with 1%-accurate field predictions.
By Hongyue Jiang, Jianjiang Zhan, Chenzhuo Zhang, Fan Wang
Extending the neural-operator element method from individually trained, fixed-geometry neural elements to a library of reusable, geometry-parameterized element types fails structurally: a field-predicting operator trained by value regression induces an energy whose assembled Hessian is indefinite, and Newton converges to spurious minima (247% error) even with 1%-accurate field predictions. We introduce convex neural energy elements: each element exports a scalar energy E(g,U), architecturally convex in its boundary degrees of freedom U and smoothly parameterized by its geometry g, realized as a hypernetwork-generated positive-semidefinite quadratic form (an input-convex correction is reserved for non-quadratic physics).
arXiv:2607. 06026v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present a novel isogeometric deep learning method, termed SplineNet, for the seamless design and analysis of shell structures with complex geometries.
By Shizhou Luo, Xiaodong Wei
arXiv:2604. 27775v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Shallow nanoindentation enables mechanical characterization of thin films, individual phases, and other volume-constrained materials, but the measured hardness is inflated by the indentation size effect (ISE).
By Radmir Karamov, Tagir Karamov
arXiv:2602. 22188v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Modelling rock-fluid interaction requires solving a set of partial differential equations (PDEs) to predict the flow behaviour and the reactions of the fluid with the rock on the interfaces.
By Nathalie C. Pinheiro, Donghu Guo, Hannah P. Menke, Aniket C. Joshi, Claire E. Heaney, Ahmed H. ElSheikh, Christopher C. Pain
The paper introduces Spectral-like Neural Discretisation (SpeND), a mesh‑free method that learns stencil weights via a neural network to approximate the modal response of a spectral operator across a specified band of wavenumbers. By projecting the network output onto the space of polynomial‑consistent weights, SpeND ensures exact consistency while minimizing dispersion and dissipation errors in a self‑supervised, physics‑agnostic manner. Experiments on disordered 2‑D node sets demonstrate that the learned fourth‑order operator matches the exact spectral response over a wider band than traditional LABFM or structured‑grid finite differences, and retains fourth‑order convergence upon refinement.
By Lucas Gerken Starepravo, Henry Broadley, Steven Lind, Jack R. C. King