Towards Unified AI-Driven Fracture Mechanics: The Extended Deep Energy Method (XDEM)
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| author | Wang, Yizheng Lin, Yuzhou Goswami, Somdatta Zhao, Luyang Zhang, Huadong Bai, Jinshuai Anitescu, Cosmin Eshaghi, Mohammad Sadegh Zhuang, Xiaoying Rabczuk, Timon Liu, Yinghua |
| author_facet | Wang, Yizheng Lin, Yuzhou Goswami, Somdatta Zhao, Luyang Zhang, Huadong Bai, Jinshuai Anitescu, Cosmin Eshaghi, Mohammad Sadegh Zhuang, Xiaoying Rabczuk, Timon Liu, Yinghua |
| contents | Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) have recently emerged as powerful tools for solving partial differential equations (PDEs), with the Deep Energy Method (DEM) proving especially effective in fracture mechanics due to its energy-based formulation. Despite these advances, existing DEM approaches require dense collocation near cracks, face stability challenges, and typically treat discrete and continuous fracture models separately. To overcome these limitations, we introduce the Extended Deep Energy Method (XDEM), a unified deep learning framework that incorporates both displacement discontinuities and crack-tip asymptotics in the discrete setting, while flexibly coupling displacement and phase fields in the continuous setting. This integration enables accurate fracture predictions using uniformly distributed, relatively sparse collocation points. Validation across benchmark problems including stress intensity factor evaluation, straight and kinked crack growth, and complex crack initiation demonstrates that XDEM consistently outperforms standard DEM in accuracy and efficiency. By bridging discrete and phase-field models within a single framework, XDEM establishes a robust foundation for applying AI to fracture mechanics and opens new avenues for predictive modeling in engineering and materials science. |
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| spellingShingle | Towards Unified AI-Driven Fracture Mechanics: The Extended Deep Energy Method (XDEM) Wang, Yizheng Lin, Yuzhou Goswami, Somdatta Zhao, Luyang Zhang, Huadong Bai, Jinshuai Anitescu, Cosmin Eshaghi, Mohammad Sadegh Zhuang, Xiaoying Rabczuk, Timon Liu, Yinghua Computational Physics Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) have recently emerged as powerful tools for solving partial differential equations (PDEs), with the Deep Energy Method (DEM) proving especially effective in fracture mechanics due to its energy-based formulation. Despite these advances, existing DEM approaches require dense collocation near cracks, face stability challenges, and typically treat discrete and continuous fracture models separately. To overcome these limitations, we introduce the Extended Deep Energy Method (XDEM), a unified deep learning framework that incorporates both displacement discontinuities and crack-tip asymptotics in the discrete setting, while flexibly coupling displacement and phase fields in the continuous setting. This integration enables accurate fracture predictions using uniformly distributed, relatively sparse collocation points. Validation across benchmark problems including stress intensity factor evaluation, straight and kinked crack growth, and complex crack initiation demonstrates that XDEM consistently outperforms standard DEM in accuracy and efficiency. By bridging discrete and phase-field models within a single framework, XDEM establishes a robust foundation for applying AI to fracture mechanics and opens new avenues for predictive modeling in engineering and materials science. |
| title | Towards Unified AI-Driven Fracture Mechanics: The Extended Deep Energy Method (XDEM) |
| topic | Computational Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.05888 |