Artificial Intelligence Based Space Reduction of Structural Models
The need of solving industrial problems using faster and less computationally expensive techniques is becoming a requirement to cope with the present digital transformation of most industries. Recently, data is conquering the domain of engineering with different purposes: (i) defining data-driven models of materials, processes, structures and systems, whose physics-based models, when they exists, remain too inaccurate; (ii) enriching the existing physics-based models within the so-called hybrid paradigm; and (iii) using advanced machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques for scales bridging (upscaling), that is, for creating models that operating at the coarse-grained scale (cheaper in what respect the computational resources) enables integrating the fine-scale richness. The present work addresses the last item, aiming at enhancing standard structural models (defined in 2D shell geometries) for accounting all the fine-scale details (3D with rich through-the-thickness behaviors). For this purpose, two main strategies will be combined: (i) the in-plane-out-of-plane proper generalized decomposition -PGD- serving to provide the fine-scale richness; and (ii) advance machine learning techniques able to learn and extract the regression relating the input parameters with those high-resolution detailed descriptions.