Mechanical MNIST

Each dataset in the Mechanical MNIST collection contains the results of 70,000 (60,000 training examples + 10,000 test examples) finite element simulation of a heterogeneous material subject to large deformation. Mechanical MNIST is generated by first converting the MNIST bitmap images (http://www.pymvpa.org/datadb/mnist.html) to 2D heterogeneous blocks of material. Consistent with the MNIST bitmap (28 ×28 pixels), the material domain is a 28 ×28 unit square. All simulations are conducted with the FEniCS computing platform (https://fenicsproject.org). The code to reproduce these simulations is hosted on GitHub (https://github.com/elejeune11/Mechanical-MNIST/tree/master/generate_dataset).

The paper "Mechanical MNIST: A benchmark dataset for mechanical metamodels" can be found at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eml.2020.100659. All code necessary to reproduce the metamodels demonstrated in the manuscript is available on GitHub (https://github.com/elejeune11/Mechanical-MNIST). For questions, please contact Emma Lejeune (elejeune@bu.edu).