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Flexel ecosystem: simulating mechanical systems from entities with arbitrarily complex mechanical responses
Paul Ducarme, Bart Weber, Martin van Hecke +1
Nonlinearities and instabilities in mechanical structures have shown great promise for embedding advanced functionalities. However, simulating structures subject to nonlinearities…
Slit-snapping and multistability in buckled beams with partial cuts
Bernat Durà Faulí, Lennard Kwakernaak, Martin van Hecke
Elastic instabilities such as buckling and snapping have evolved into a powerful design principle, enabling memory, sequential shape morphing, and computing in metamaterials and de…
Roadmap for Animate Matter
Giorgio Volpe, Nuno A. M. Araújo, Maria Guix +37
Humanity has long sought inspiration from nature to innovate materials and devices. As science advances, nature-inspired materials are becoming part of our lives. Animate materials…
Response evolution of mechanical metamaterials under architectural transformations
Anne S. Meeussen, Erdal C. Oguz, Martin van Hecke +1
Architectural transformations play a key role in the evolution of complex systems, from design algorithms for metamaterials to flow and plasticity of disordered media. Here, we dev…
Multi-step self-guided pathways for shape-changing metamaterials
Corentin Coulais, Alberico Sabbadini, Fré Vink +1
Multi-step pathways, constituted of a sequence of reconfigurations, are central to a wide variety of natural and man-made systems. Such pathways autonomously execute in self-guided…
Couette Flow of Two-Dimensional Foams
G. Katgert, B. P. Tighe, M. E. Möbius +1
We experimentally investigate flow of quasi two-dimensional disordered foams in Couette geometries, both for foams squeezed below a top plate and for freely floating foams. With th…