{"url":"/dataset/mechanical-mnist","name":"Mechanical MNIST","full_name":null,"description_markdown":"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 ($28 \\times 28$ pixels), the material domain is a $28 \\times 28$ 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).\r\n\r\nThe 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).","description_withheld":null,"homepage":"https://open.bu.edu/handle/2144/39371","introduced_date":null,"introduced_date_note":null,"introduced_by":null,"license":null,"modalities":[],"tasks":[],"languages":[],"variants":["Mechanical MNIST"],"data_loaders":[],"num_papers_in_archive":2,"source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28"},"benchmarks":[],"papers_with_a_benchmark_row":[],"syntology_totals":{"read_at":"2026-09-24T18:15:14+00:00","papers_with_samples":0,"samples_harvested":0,"samples_ran":0,"samples_unverified":0,"pointer_only_for_licence":0,"papers_with_no_sample_that_ran":0,"note":"the per-paper counts above, summed; not a rate"},"papers_note":"The archive never published its papers-using-dataset list; these are papers with a leaderboard row on this dataset's benchmarks."}