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
- Laboratory for Multiscale Mechanics (LM2), Member
- Center for Applied Research on Polymers and Composites (CREPEC), 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
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Conference paper
Thesis
Forte, A. E., Mélançon, D., Zanati, M., De Giorgi, M., & Bertoldi, K. (2023). Chiral mechanical metamaterials for tunable optical transmittance. Advanced Functional Materials, 33(20), 2214897 (7 pages).
Mélançon, D., & Pasini, D. (2022, October). 3d-printing metal is hard : the role of manufacturing imperfections in the design of high-strength porous biomaterials to replace bone tissue [Paper]. 3rd International Workshop on Reliability and Design of Additively Manufactured Materials (RdAMM2 2022), Belgrade, Serbia.
Bray, D., Mélançon, D., & Bertoldi, K. (2022, March). Exploring structural instabilities in ridge-reinforced soft cylinders [Abstract]. APS March Meeting 2022, Chicago, Ill.. Published in Bulletin of the American Physical Society, 67(3).
Mélançon, D. (2022). Functionality through multistability: From deployable structures to soft robots [Ph.D. Thesis, Harvard University].
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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
