3 papers
cond-mat.soft2025
Accelerated snapping of slender beams under lateral forcing
Colin M. Meulblok, Hadrien Bense, M. Caelen +1
The hysteretic snapping under lateral forcing of a compressed, buckled beam is fundamental for many devices and mechanical metamaterials. For a single-tip lateral pusher, an import…
physics.flu-dyn2024
Optimal rigid brush for fluid capture
Basile Radisson, Hadrien Bense, Emmanuel Siéfert +3
Parallel assemblies of slender structures forming brushes are common in our daily life from sweepers to pastry brushes and paintbrushes. This type of porous objects can easily trap…
cond-mat.soft2020
Mechanics and energetics of electromembranes
Hadrien Bense, Benoît Roman, Bruno Andreotti
The recent discovery of electro-active polymers has shown great promises in the field of soft robotics, and was logically followed by experimental, numerical and theoretical develo…