David Mélançon
B.Eng. (Poly), M.Eng. (McGill), M.Sc. (Harvard), Ph.D. (Harvard)
Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Research interests and affiliations
Research interests
- Multifunctional Structures
- Origami & Kirigami
- Soft Robotics
- Metamaterials
- Elastic Instabilities
Affiliation(s)
- Laboratoire Poly-Stable, Director
- Center for Applied Research on Polymers and Composites (CREPEC), Member
- Laboratory for Multiscale Mechanics (LM2), Member
- Astrolith, Member
Expertise type(s) (NSERC subjects)
- 1702 Advanced manufacturing
- 2101 Solid mechanics
- 2107 Modelling, simulation and finite element methods
- 2108 Aerospace, aeronautical and automotive engineering
Publications
Recent publications
Report
Journal article
Journal article
Journal article
Boisneault, L. P. J. C., Audet, C., & Mélançon, D. (2024). Blackbox optimization for origami-inspired bistable structures. (Technical Report n° G-2024-51).
Yang, Y., Read, H., Sbai, M., Zareei, A., Forte, A. E., Mélançon, D., & Bertoldi, K. (2024). Complex Deformation in Soft Cylindrical Structures via Programmable Sequential Instabilities. Advanced Materials, 202406611 (6 pages).
Liétard, Y., Therriault, D., & Mélançon, D. (2024). Exploiting Geometric Frustration in Coupled von Mises Trusses to Program Multifunctional Mechanical Metamaterials. Advanced Engineering Materials.
Lamoureux, D., Ramananarivo, S., Mélançon, D., & Gosselin, F. (2024). Simulating flow-induced reconfiguration by coupling corotational plate finite elements with a simplified pressure drag. Extreme Mechanics Letters, 74, 102271 (8 pages).
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Teaching
MEC8470 - Finite Element Analysis in Solid Mechanics
Education
- Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Aerospace Engineering, Polytechnique Montreal
- Master’s of Engineering (M.Eng.), Mechanical Engineering , McGill
- Master’s of Science (M.Sc.), Applied Mathematics, Harvard
- Ph.D., Applied Mathematics, Harvard
- Post-doc in Applied Sciences and Engineering, Princeton
Supervision at Polytechnique
COMPLETED
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Master's Thesis (1)
- Lamoureux, D. (2024). Kirigami Parachutes Flow-Induced Reconfiguration of Kirigami Mechanical Metamaterials [Master's thesis, Polytechnique Montréal].
Press review about David Mélançon
January 28, 2024,
ICI Télé,
Découverte | Le génie de l'origami
David Mélançon, professeur adjoint au Département de génie mécanique, expose ses travaux de recherche sur la technique de l'origami.
