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¹Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technion, 320000 Haifa, Israel. danielhe@technion.ac.il.

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A new training rule allows spring-dashpot networks to learn stress patterns by controlling target bond tensions. This method achieves high precision, with yielding dashpots enabling permanent memory encoding.

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Area of Science:

Physics
Materials Science
Computational Mechanics

Background:

Networks of springs and dashpots are used to model complex mechanical systems.
Controlling stress patterns in such networks is crucial for understanding material behavior and designing new materials.

Purpose of the Study:

To introduce a novel training rule for spring-dashpot networks to learn precise stress patterns.
To investigate the effect of target bond selection on learning convergence and system frustration.
To explore the potential for memory encoding using dashpots with yield stresses.

Main Methods:

A training rule was developed to control tensions on a subset of 'target' bonds within a spring-dashpot network.
The network's remaining bonds served as learning degrees of freedom, evolving in response to applied stresses.
Target bond selection criteria were varied, including single target bonds per node and multiple targets on a single node.
The study considered dashpots with and without yield stresses to assess training convergence and memory capabilities.

Main Results:

The training rule enabled the network to learn precise stress patterns, with errors converging to computer precision when at most one target bond was present per node.
Different target bond selection criteria influenced convergence speed and success, with additional targets on a single node potentially causing slow convergence or failure.
Training remained successful even when approaching the Maxwell Calladine theorem limit.
Networks with yielding dashpots exhibited slower, power-law error decay but successfully prevented relaxation after training, enabling permanent memory encoding.

Conclusions:

The proposed training rule is effective for precise stress pattern learning in spring-dashpot networks.
System frustration, influenced by target bond selection, plays a critical role in learning performance.
The incorporation of yielding dashpots offers a pathway for creating materials with permanent memory capabilities.