Systems and Methods for Computational Discovery of Microstructured Composites with Optimized Trade-off between Strength and Toughness

An approach to designing a structural combination of multiple materials includes determining, using a physical simulator, simulated measurement data for a first plurality of simulation designs. Each simulation design characterizes a structural combination of a plurality of materials. The simulated measurement data for each simulation design provides a simulation of physical qualities of the design. A subset of the simulation designs is selected based on the simulated measurement data for said simulation designs to yield a set of fabrications designs. This set of fabrication designs is provided for fabrication of a set respective physical samples. A set of physical measurements is received for the set of physical samples. Each physical measurement for a physical sample providing measurements a plurality of physical qualities of the sample. The physical simulator is reconfigured using a set of fabrication designs in association with respective physical measurements of physical samples fabricated according to the fabrication designs.