A data-driven constitutive model for porous elastomers at large strains
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Author(s)
Bozkurt, onur
Tagarielli, Vito
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
A data-driven computational framework is established to implement surrogate constitutive models for porous elastomers undergoing large deformation. Explicit finite element (FE) simulations are conducted to compute the homogenised response of a cubic unit cell of a porous compressible elastomer, subject to a random set of imposed multiaxial strain states. The FE predictions are used to assemble a training dataset for two different surrogate models, based on simple neural networks. The first establishes a non-linear correspondence between six-dimensional strain and stress vectors; the second provides a strain energy potential from which to derive the stress versus strain response. The accuracy of the surrogate models is quantified, and their predictions are compared to those of the Hyperfoam model; it is found that the surrogate models can significantly outperform this well-known phenomenological model.
Date Issued
2024-08
Date Acceptance
2024-05-17
Citation
Extreme Mechanics Letters, 2024, 70
ISSN
2352-4316
Publisher
Elsevier
Journal / Book Title
Extreme Mechanics Letters
Volume
70
Copyright Statement
© 2024 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Identifier
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352431624000506
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
102170
Date Publish Online
2024-05-21