abstract = "In this paper, a new approach is presented for
constitutive modelling of materials in finite element
analysis. The proposed approach provides a unified
framework for modelling of complex materials using
evolutionary polynomial regression (EPR). A procedure
is presented for construction of EPR-based constitutive
model (EPRCM) and its integration in finite element
procedure. The main advantage of EPRCM over
conventional and neural network-based constitutive
models is that it provides the optimum structure for
the material constitutive model representation as well
as its parameters, directly from raw experimental (or
field) data. It can learn nonlinear and complex
material behaviour without any prior assumption on the
constitutive relationships. The proposed algorithm
provides a transparent relationship for the
constitutive material model that can readily be
incorporated in a finite element model. The developed
EPRCM-based finite element model is used to analyse a
3D shallow foundation and the results are compared with
conventional methods. It is shown that the proposed
approach provides an efficient alternative to
conventional constitutive modelling in finite element
analysis.",