About this Abstract |
| Meeting |
2027 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition
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| Symposium
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AI/ML/Data Informatics for Materials Discovery: Bridging Experiment, Theory, and Modeling
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| Presentation Title |
Data-Driven Surrogate to FE for Predicting Elastoplastic Constitutive Relation in Polymer Nanocomposites |
| Author(s) |
Dibya Jyoti Basu, Seongmin Yoon, Vikas Tomar |
| On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Dibya Jyoti Basu |
| Abstract Scope |
Phenomenological constitutive relations describe the macroscopic response of materials but generally remain unknown for newly developed material systems. Their identification typically requires computationally expensive inverse Finite-Element (FE) calculations that iteratively calibrate constitutive parameters against experimental observations. In this work, we develop a data-driven framework that infers the bulk plasticity law from compositional and microstructural descriptors alone, bypassing per-formulation inverse modeling. Using epoxy nanocomposites as a model system, we train the framework on FE simulations with a cohesive-zone representation of damage and show how nanoscale modification reorganizes the macroscopic flow response: adding nanoclay progressively suppresses the plastic work density and drives a ductile-to-brittle transition from neat epoxy to its modified counterparts. The inferred constitutive laws reproduce the measured stress–strain response across compositions spanning this transition, with no per-material fitting. The result is a predictive microstructure-to-plasticity map for polymer nanocomposites and a route to the inverse design of constitutive behavior from composition. |
| Proceedings Inclusion? |
Planned: |
| Keywords |
Polymers, Computational Materials Science & Engineering, Other |