Benchmarking data-driven material models on the classic Treloar dataset
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arXiv:2608.14063v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Machine learning is rapidly reshaping constitutive modeling, offers new ways to learn material behavior directly from experimental data, and challenges long-established modeling paradigms. But with a growing number of machine-learning-based approaches available, how do they compare in practice? In this paper, we use the classic experimental data of Treloar to benchmark popular frameworks for hyperelasticity: (Generalized-Invariant) Constitutive Artificial Neural Networks, Physics-Augmented Neural Networks, (Adaptive) Material Fingerprinting, and
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2608.14063v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Machine learning is rapidly reshaping constitutive modeling, offers new ways to learn material behavior directly from experimental data, and challenges long-established modeling paradigms.
- But with a growing number of machine-learning-based approaches available, how do they compare in practice?
- In this paper, we use the classic experimental data of Treloar to benchmark popular frameworks for hyperelasticity: (Generalized-Invariant) Constitutive Artificial Neural Networks, Physics-Augmented Neural Networks, (Adaptive) Material Fingerprinting, and
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