Rodríguez-Sánchez, Alejandro E.
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Rodríguez-Sánchez, Alejandro E.
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Rodríguez-Sánchez, Alejandro Esteban
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0000-0003-3397-5261
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57202719691
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Item type:Publication, Modeling Planar Flexible Linkages with Cosserat Rods and Neural Networks(Springer Nature Switzerland, 2025-11-18); ; - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Design, Construction and Validation of a Vibration Table with Distributed Load Cells for Dynamic Measurement(Springer Nature Switzerland, 2025-11-18); ; - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Comparative assessment of physics-informed recurrent networks for modeling rate- and density-dependent compression in expanded polystyrene foams(SAGE Publications, 2025-07-28)<jats:p>This study systematically compares Recurrent Neural Network architectures—namely simple Recurrent Neural Network, Long Short-Term Memory, and Gated Recurrent Units—for modeling the cyclic compressive mechanical response of Expanded Polystyrene foam across varying densities and loading rates. Purely data-driven (direct) methodologies and Physics-Informed Neural Network formulations, the latter with explicit physics enforcement, were investigated using experimental data from uniaxial cyclic compression tests. The objective was to predict the first Piola-Kirchhoff stress as a function of time, compressive stretch, initial density of the materials, and loading rate. Results demonstrated that direct Gated Recurrent Units and Long Short-Term Memory models consistently achieved the highest predictive accuracy, evidenced by low Mean Absolute Error and high coefficient of determination values, and exhibited superior generalization capabilities on unseen test conditions. While Physics-Informed Neural Network models, particularly those incorporating boundary conditions and energy restrictions, offered enhanced physical consistency—such as enforcing zero strain energy density at a unitary stretch and enforcing positive strain energy—they incurred greater computational expense and, in certain configurations, showed reduced predictive accuracy or stability, especially during generalization. The findings conclude that direct Gated Recurrent Units and Long Short-Term Memory architectures provide an effective and efficient approach for accurately capturing the complex, history-dependent behaviour of Expanded Polystyrene foam under cyclic loading.</jats:p> - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Experimental characterization and tensile mechanical modeling of an Opuntia velutina biopolymer(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2025-12-12); Sandra Pascoe-Ortiz - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, An orthotropic hyperfoam-based model for the compressive response of aged polyurethane foams(IOP Publishing, 2025-11-27)<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>This study presents a constitutive modeling framework to characterize the uniaxial compressive response of polyurethane foams subjected to nine distinct accelerated aging conditions. A new orthotropic, three-term Hyperfoam-based model was simultaneously calibrated for two principal material directions using previously published experimental data. The unified model was successfully fitted to the experimental stress-strain curves, achieving coefficients of determination greater than 0.78 in all cases. This demonstrates its capability to capture the material’s characteristic response, even under severe degradation that significantly increases experimental variability. Analysis of energy absorption and efficiency revealed that while the model is accurate for mild to moderate degradation states, deviations are observed at high strains (above a compressive strain of 0.7) for severely degraded samples. Crucially, the analysis of the fitted orthotropic response quantitatively demonstrates that severe aging accentuates the foam’s mechanical anisotropy. This work establishes a quantitative link between aging conditions, the evolution of mechanical properties, and the orthotropic constitutive parameters, providing a predictive tool for evaluating the material’s directional performance.</jats:p> - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Deep Learning Automated Measurements of Expanded Polystyrene Beads Size Using Low‐Resolution Micrography(Wiley, 2025-07-04); Héctor Plascencia‐Mora<jats:title>ABSTRACT</jats:title><jats:p>The analysis of microscopic characteristics of closed‐cell polymeric foams, particularly bead size, is relevant for understanding properties such as thermal insulation, energy absorption, and compressive structural strength of these materials. This study presents an automated method based on Deep Learning models to measure the bead size of Expanded Polystyrene foams in low‐resolution micrographs. The results of this approach were compared with manual measurements at two expanded polystyrene foam densities: 8.5 and 24 kg/m<jats:sup>3</jats:sup>. Hypothesis tests, including Student's <jats:italic>t</jats:italic>‐test, Levene's test, and Mann–Whitney <jats:italic>U</jats:italic> test, were conducted and showed no significant differences between manual and automatic measurements. Student's <jats:italic>t</jats:italic>‐test and Levene's test indicated that both methods have comparable means and variances, while the Two One‐Sided Test confirmed that they were equivalent for bead size measurement. Additionally, the Mann–Whitney <jats:italic>U</jats:italic> test revealed no differences in medians, and Bland–Altman plot analyses demonstrated no systematic bias between the methods. Taken together, these results suggest that the proposed Deep Learning‐based method is a reliable and precise substitute for the manual method in measuring the bead size of expanded polystyrene, making it suitable for practical use in the bead microstructural analysis of expanded polystyrene material.</jats:p> - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Uncertainty quantification of compressive stress response in expanded polystyrene foams using evidential neural networks(SAGE Publications, 2026-01-09)<jats:p>This study investigates the application of Deep Evidential Regression in shallow feed-forward neural networks to model and quantify the compressive stress response of expanded polystyrene foam. This foam material, widely utilized for impact protection and packaging, exhibits distinct mechanical behavior characterized by elasticity, plateau, and densification stages during compressive loading. This research adopts a data-driven approach, leveraging artificial neural networks enhanced with evidential learning to predict the distribution of stress responses, thereby addressing both aleatoric and epistemic uncertainties. The methodology involves organizing stress-strain data into training, validation, and test sets, adding noise to simulate real-world conditions, and training models with evidential layers. Results demonstrate that the proposed models maintain high predictive accuracy, with coefficients of determination exceeding 0.90 for noisy test data and above 0.99 for noise-free data. The evidential regression models also provide robust uncertainty quantification, essential for applications where data quality varies. This study’s findings highlight the efficiency and effectiveness of Deep Evidential Regression in enhancing the reliability of stress-strain predictions for EPS foam, offering significant potential for broader application to similar foam materials.</jats:p> - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Optimización de la configuración de materiales compuestos laminados mediante redes neuronales y templado simulado(CULCyT: Cultura Científica y Tecnológica, 2024); Julio César Galvis ChacónLa optimización de materiales compuestos laminados es uno de los principales desafíos en el diseño de componentes o sistemas estructurales debido a la influencia de múltiples parámetros en su desempeño y respuesta mecánica ante la deformación. Esta investigación utiliza un metamodelo basado en redes neuronales artificiales para predecir índices de desempeño, específicamente el índice de falla de Tsai-Wu, a partir de la configuración del laminado de un material compuesto sujeto a cargas considerando espesores y orientaciones de sus fibras. El metamodelo alimenta una función objetivo diseñada para mejorar la configuración de una pieza mediante la optimización de las orientaciones de las fibras. Se combina un algoritmo de templado simulado adaptado para materiales compuestos laminados con redes neuronales, generando un espacio de soluciones que ofrece al diseñador una amplia gama de opciones para abordar el análisis del problema. El método reportado es una alternativa eficiente al método tradicional de análisis de materiales compuestos laminados, agilizando el proceso y ampliando las posibilidades de configuración disponibles para su selección.9 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Classification of Rugosity in Plasmonic Metallic Thin Films Using Deep Learning for Speckle Images(2024)8 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Neural network-driven interpretability analysis for evaluating compressive stress in polymer foams(2024); Scopus© Citations 2 8