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Vectorial driving of multistable materials: singularities, pt-graphs, and non-generic paths
Colin M. Meulblok, Martin van Hecke
Describing and predicting the response of multistable materials to external driving is central to memory formation, programmable metamaterials, soft robotics, and in-materia comput…
Dynamic driving enables independent control of material bits for targeted memory
E. Gutierrez-Prieto, C. M. Meulblok, M. van Hecke +1
Mechanical metamaterials with bistable elements can store vast amounts of information, but writing these memories requires impractical local control or lengthy multi-cycle protocol…
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…
Transients and multiperiodic responses: a hierarchy of material bits
Colin M. Meulblok, Martin van Hecke
When cyclically driven, certain disordered materials exhibit transient and multiperiodic responses that are difficult to reproduce in synthetic materials. Here, we show that elemen…
Prospecting for Pluripotency in Metamaterial Design
Ryan van Mastrigt, Marjolein Dijkstra, Martin van Hecke +1
From self-assembly and protein folding to combinatorial metamaterials, a key challenge in material design is finding the right combination of interacting building blocks that yield…
Transition Graphs of Interacting Hysterons: Structure, Design, Organization and Statistics
Margot H. Teunisse, Martin van Hecke
Transition graphs capture the memory and sequential response of multistable media, by specifying their evolution under external driving. Microscopically, collections of bistable el…
The Collective Snapping of a Pair of Bumping Buckled Beams
Lennard J. Kwakernaak, Arman Guerra, Douglas P. Holmes +1
When a pair of parallel buckling beams of unequal width make lateral contact under increasing compression, eventually either the thin or the thick beam will snap, leading to collec…
Multi-Frequency Acoustic Steering in Rationally Pruned Disordered Networks
Anastasiia O. Krushynska, Martin van Hecke
The frequency of a wave is a crucial parameter to understanding its propagation to a structured medium. While metamaterials can be designed to focus or steer deformations or waves…
Conformal Elasticity of Mechanism-Based Metamaterials
Michael Czajkowski, Corentin Coulais, Martin van Hecke +1
Deformations of conventional solids are described via elasticity, a classical field theory whose form is constrained by translational and rotational symmetries. However, flexible m…
Sources, sinks and wavenumber selection in coupled CGL equations and experimental implications for counter-propagating wave systems
Martin van Hecke, Cornelis Storm, Wim van Saarloos
We study the coupled complex Ginzburg-Landau (CGL) equations for traveling wave systems in the regime where sources and sinks separate patches of left and right-traveling waves. We…
The Building Blocks of Spatiotemporal Intermittency
Martin van Hecke
We obtain a family of uniformly propagating hole-solutions to the complex Ginzburg-Landau equation which differ from the well-known Nozaki-Bekki holes. They describe the spatial or…
Sources and sinks separating domains of left- and right-traveling waves: Experiment versus amplitude equations
Roberto Alvarez, Martin van Hecke, Wim van Saarloos
In many pattern forming systems that exhibit traveling waves, sources and sinks occur which separate patches of oppositely traveling waves. We show that simple qualitative features…
Front propagation into unstable and metastable states in Smectic C* liquid crystals: linear and nonlinear marginal stability analysis
Wim van Saarloos, Martin van Hecke, Robert Holyst
We discuss the front propagation in ferroelectric chiral smectics (SmC*) subjected to electric and magnetic fields applied parallel to smectic layers. The reversal of the electric…