Ryan van Mastrigt

Postdoctoral Researcher @ ESPCI Paris

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  • ๐—˜๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐˜„๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐—ต๐—ผ๐˜„ ๐˜๐—ผ ๐—บ๐—ฎ๐—ธ๐—ฒ ๐—ฎ ๐—บ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ฎ๐—น ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐—ป ๐˜€๐—บ๐—ถ๐—น๐—ฒ ๐—ผ๐—ฟ ๐—ณ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐˜„๐—ป?Together with my PhD advisors, Marjolein Dijkstra, Martin van Hecke & Corentin Coulais, we set out to answer this seemingly silly question and, in the process, developed a two-step approach to design mechanical metamaterials with multiple, desired deformation pathways. ๐Ÿ” ๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ธ๐—ฒ๐˜† ๐—ถ๐—ป๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ด๐—ต๐˜Instead of…

  • Floppy or Not

    Determining whether a specific mechanical metamaterial design will deform as intended is easy to compute; identifying which designs do so among more than a billion possibilities is not. Neural networks can dramatically accelerate this classification, even when trained on only a tiny fraction of the design space. In this paper published in Physical Review Letters,…