Dataset for "Fast structural analysis of concrete thin-shells using deep learning"

This dataset contains scripts and data supporting the following research article: Pollet, M., Shepherd, P., Hawkins, W., and Costa, E., 2026. Fast structural analysis of concrete thin-shells using deep learning. Computers & Structures, 320, 108042.

Concrete thin-shells are materially efficient structures, which can be used to reduce the environmental impact of concrete structures. Their shape is typically determined iteratively and evaluated through Finite Element Analysis (FEA). This research proposes the use of surrogate models as faster alternatives to FEA, thus enabling wider design space exploration.

This dataset contains deep learning models – Multilayer Perceptrons, Convolutional Neural Networks, and Graph Neural Networks – that have been trained to predict the buckling factor and stress fields of concrete thin-shells of various shapes under design loads. It also contains the Python scripts that were used to train these models and assess their performance. Running these scripts necessitates the associated ConcreteShellFEA dataset to be downloaded. Further details about this data can be found in the related research article.