Adaptive Material Fingerprinting for the fast discovery of polyconvex feature combinations in isotropic and anisotropic hyperelasticity

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Main Authors: Flaschel, Moritz, Holthusen, Hagen, Martonová, Denisa, Kuhl, Ellen
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Published: 2026
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author Flaschel, Moritz
Holthusen, Hagen
Martonová, Denisa
Kuhl, Ellen
author_facet Flaschel, Moritz
Holthusen, Hagen
Martonová, Denisa
Kuhl, Ellen
contents We recently proposed a method called Material Fingerprinting for the rapid discovery of mechanical material models that avoids solving continuous optimization problems. Material Fingerprinting assumes that each material exhibits a unique response when subjected to a standardized experimental setup, which is interpreted as the material's mechanical fingerprint. If a database of fingerprints is generated in an offline phase, a model for an unseen experimental measurement can be discovered in real time by comparing the experimentally measured fingerprint to the fingerprints in the database. In our original contributions, the database comprised a fixed number of material models, each with a fixed number of parameters. To increase the fitting flexibility of Material Fingerprinting, we propose an adaptive model database coupled with an iterative pattern recognition algorithm that refines the material model in each step. This strategy enables Material Fingerprinting to discover arbitrary linear combinations of material models from the database, rather than being restricted to selecting a single model from a predefined set. In comparison to previous works on Material Fingerprinting, this enables the discovery of more complex models, such as multi-term Ogden models or the anisotropic Holzapfel-Gasser-Ogden model. To design the adaptive database, we leverage sums of strain energy density feature functions that depend on isotropic and anisotropic invariants. All modeling features satisfy fundamental physical constraints, and polyconvexity can be optionally enforced via a simple user-controlled switch. We test the method on experimental data stemming from mechanical tests of isotropic rubber materials and anisotropic animal skin tissue.
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spellingShingle Adaptive Material Fingerprinting for the fast discovery of polyconvex feature combinations in isotropic and anisotropic hyperelasticity
Flaschel, Moritz
Holthusen, Hagen
Martonová, Denisa
Kuhl, Ellen
Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science
We recently proposed a method called Material Fingerprinting for the rapid discovery of mechanical material models that avoids solving continuous optimization problems. Material Fingerprinting assumes that each material exhibits a unique response when subjected to a standardized experimental setup, which is interpreted as the material's mechanical fingerprint. If a database of fingerprints is generated in an offline phase, a model for an unseen experimental measurement can be discovered in real time by comparing the experimentally measured fingerprint to the fingerprints in the database. In our original contributions, the database comprised a fixed number of material models, each with a fixed number of parameters. To increase the fitting flexibility of Material Fingerprinting, we propose an adaptive model database coupled with an iterative pattern recognition algorithm that refines the material model in each step. This strategy enables Material Fingerprinting to discover arbitrary linear combinations of material models from the database, rather than being restricted to selecting a single model from a predefined set. In comparison to previous works on Material Fingerprinting, this enables the discovery of more complex models, such as multi-term Ogden models or the anisotropic Holzapfel-Gasser-Ogden model. To design the adaptive database, we leverage sums of strain energy density feature functions that depend on isotropic and anisotropic invariants. All modeling features satisfy fundamental physical constraints, and polyconvexity can be optionally enforced via a simple user-controlled switch. We test the method on experimental data stemming from mechanical tests of isotropic rubber materials and anisotropic animal skin tissue.
title Adaptive Material Fingerprinting for the fast discovery of polyconvex feature combinations in isotropic and anisotropic hyperelasticity
topic Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.05698