Fracture modeling using Physics Informed Neural Network

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The Physics Informed Neural Networks are trained to solve supervised learning problems while respecting any given law of physics described by general non-linear partial differential equations. The developed PINN approach takes a different path by minimizing the variational energy of the system to resolve the crack path within the framework of phase field modeling approach. One major advantage of the variational energy formulation resides in the fact that it requires derivatives of lower order than in the conventional residual minimization approach. Hence, this approach is computationally efficient. The concept of Transfer Learning and Adaptive Refinement Technique has been integrated with the developed PINN approach.

Companion paper:

1. Transfer learning enhanced physics informed neural network for phase-field modeling of fracture
2. An energy approach to the solution of partial differential equations in computational mechanics via machine learning:Concepts, implementation and applications
3. Adaptive fourth-order phase field analysis using deep energy minimization

Adaptive phase field modeling of fracture using Isogeometric analysis

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• While the phase field approach has numerous advantages for solving complicated fracture paths, the practical application is severely limited due to the computational cost. This is due to the fact that to ensure a numerically stable crack propagation, the size of the elements must be sufficiently small to adequately resolve the damage region.
• Fracture analysis exhibits varying material properties in a local zone. Uniform refinement of the domain requires a significant computational effort when trying to capture quantities of local interest. Hence, an Adaptive Mesh Refinement Technique is developed to refine the mesh locally and adaptively, for an accurate and efficient solution.
• The solution scheme for both the second and the fourth-order phase field model, and is implemented using PHT-splines within the framework of Isogeometric analysis. Both cubic and quadratic stress degradation functions have been used.

Companion paper: Adaptive fourth-order phase field analysis for brittle fracture

Dual mesh approach of fracture modeling using Isogeometric analysis

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• PHT splines are C0 continuous at patch boundaries. Hence, these are not suitable for fourth-order phase field modeling with multiple patch geometries, without making any special considerations.
• The second-order phase field model even though requires C0 smooth basis functions over the whole domain, yet has stringent mesh size requirements.
• Consequently, a dual-mesh approach for the second-order phase field model is devised, which uses a coarser discretization for the displacement field and a finer discretization for the phase field.
• The smaller element size in the phase field mesh ensures a numerically stable crack growth, while larger elements in the elastic mesh reduce the computational cost significantly.
• A recovery-based a posteriori error estimator drives the adaptive refinement on the elastic mesh, while a critical threshold value of the phase field parameter determines the need for refinement on the phase field mesh.

Companion paper: Adaptive phase field analysis with dual hierarchical meshes for brittle fracture