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Main Authors: Ahmed, Bilal, Qiu, Yuqing, Abueidda, Diab W., El-Sekelly, Waleed, Abdoun, Tarek, Mobasher, Mostafa E.
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.07090
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author Ahmed, Bilal
Qiu, Yuqing
Abueidda, Diab W.
El-Sekelly, Waleed
Abdoun, Tarek
Mobasher, Mostafa E.
author_facet Ahmed, Bilal
Qiu, Yuqing
Abueidda, Diab W.
El-Sekelly, Waleed
Abdoun, Tarek
Mobasher, Mostafa E.
contents Finite element (FE) modeling is essential for structural analysis but remains computationally intensive, especially under dynamic loading. While operator learning models have shown promise in replicating static structural responses at FEM level accuracy, modeling dynamic behavior remains more challenging. This work presents a Multiple Input Operator Network (MIONet) that incorporates a second trunk network to explicitly encode temporal dynamics, enabling accurate prediction of structural responses under moving loads. Traditional DeepONet architectures using recurrent neural networks (RNNs) are limited by fixed time discretization and struggle to capture continuous dynamics. In contrast, MIONet predicts responses continuously over both space and time, removing the need for step wise modeling. It maps scalar inputs including load type, velocity, spatial mesh, and time steps to full field structural responses. To improve efficiency and enforce physical consistency, we introduce a physics informed loss based on dynamic equilibrium using precomputed mass, damping, and stiffness matrices, without solving the governing PDEs directly. Further, a Schur complement formulation reduces the training domain, significantly cutting computational costs while preserving global accuracy. The model is validated on both a simple beam and the KW-51 bridge, achieving FEM level accuracy within seconds. Compared to GRU based DeepONet, our model offers comparable accuracy with improved temporal continuity and over 100 times faster inference, making it well suited for real-time structural monitoring and digital twin applications.
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spellingShingle Physics-informed Multiple-Input Operators for efficient dynamic response prediction of structures
Ahmed, Bilal
Qiu, Yuqing
Abueidda, Diab W.
El-Sekelly, Waleed
Abdoun, Tarek
Mobasher, Mostafa E.
Machine Learning
Finite element (FE) modeling is essential for structural analysis but remains computationally intensive, especially under dynamic loading. While operator learning models have shown promise in replicating static structural responses at FEM level accuracy, modeling dynamic behavior remains more challenging. This work presents a Multiple Input Operator Network (MIONet) that incorporates a second trunk network to explicitly encode temporal dynamics, enabling accurate prediction of structural responses under moving loads. Traditional DeepONet architectures using recurrent neural networks (RNNs) are limited by fixed time discretization and struggle to capture continuous dynamics. In contrast, MIONet predicts responses continuously over both space and time, removing the need for step wise modeling. It maps scalar inputs including load type, velocity, spatial mesh, and time steps to full field structural responses. To improve efficiency and enforce physical consistency, we introduce a physics informed loss based on dynamic equilibrium using precomputed mass, damping, and stiffness matrices, without solving the governing PDEs directly. Further, a Schur complement formulation reduces the training domain, significantly cutting computational costs while preserving global accuracy. The model is validated on both a simple beam and the KW-51 bridge, achieving FEM level accuracy within seconds. Compared to GRU based DeepONet, our model offers comparable accuracy with improved temporal continuity and over 100 times faster inference, making it well suited for real-time structural monitoring and digital twin applications.
title Physics-informed Multiple-Input Operators for efficient dynamic response prediction of structures
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.07090