Citation

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@article{pastrana_2026,
    title = {{Differentiable force density method for the design of lightweight structures}},
    author = {Pastrana, Rafael and Oktay, Deniz and Bletzinger, Kai-Uwe and Adams, Ryan P. and Adriaenssens, Sigrid},
    year = {2026},
    journal = {Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering},
    volume = {458},
    pages = {118783},
    issn = {0045-7825},
    doi = {10.1016/j.cma.2026.118783}
}

@inproceedings{pastrana_2023_workshop,
    title = {{JAX FDM: A differentiable solver for inverse form-finding}},
    author = {Pastrana, Rafael and Oktay, Deniz and Adams, Ryan P. and Adriaenssens, Sigrid},
    booktitle = {Differentiable Almost Everything Workshop of the 40th International Conference on Machine Learning},
    year = {2023},
    address = {Hawaii, USA},
    url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=Uu9OPgh24d}
}

@software{pastrana_software,
    title = {{JAX FDM: Auto-differentiable and hardware-accelerated force density method}},
    author = {Pastrana, Rafael and Oktay, Deniz and Adams, Ryan P. and Adriaenssens, Sigrid},
    url = {https://github.com/arpastrana/jax_fdm}
}