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David MélançonDepartment of Mechanical Engineering
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Boisneault, L. P. J. C., Audet, C., & Mélançon, D. (2025). Blackbox optimization for origami-inspired bistable structures. Optimization methods & software, 16 pages. External link
Boisneault, L. P. J. C., Audet, C., & Mélançon, D. (2024). Blackbox optimization for origami-inspired bistable structures. (Technical Report n° G-2024-51). External link
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). External link
Bagheri, Z. S., Mélançon, D., Liu, L., Johnston, R. B., & Pasini, D. (2017). Compensation strategy to reduce geometry and mechanics mismatches in porous biomaterials built with selective laser melting. Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, 70, 17-27. External link
El Elmi, A., Mélançon, D., Asgari, M., Liu, L., & Pasini, D. (2020). Experimental and numerical investigation of selective laser melting-induced defects in Ti-6Al-4V octet truss lattice material: the role of material microstructure and morphological variations. Journal of Materials Research, 35(15), 1900-1912. External link
Farhadi, D., Pernigoni, L., Mélançon, D., & Bertoldi, K. (2025). Origami Crawlers: Exploring A Single Origami Vertex for Complex Path Navigation. Advanced Materials, 8 pages. External link
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). External link
Garon, J., Routier, A.-L., Mélançon, D., & Gosselin, F. (2023, May). Morphogenesis through mechanical instabilities : wrinkles and ruffles formation during the growth of kelp blades [Abstract]. Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering (CSME) / Computational Fluid Dynamics Society of Canada (CFD Canada). International congress, Sherbrooke, Qc, Canada. Published in Progress in Canadian Mechanical Engineering, 6. External link
Gorissen, B., Mélançon, D., Vasios, N., Torbati, M., & Bertoldi, K. (2020). Inflatable soft jumper inspired by shell snapping. Science Robotics, 5(42), eabb1967. External link
Gorissen, B., Mélançon, D., Vasios, N., Torbati, M., & Bertoldi, K. Energy release through volume snapping in soft inflatable actuators [Abstract]. APS March Meeting Abstracts. External link
Lamoureux, D., Fillion, J., Ramananarivo, S., Gosselin, F., & Mélançon, D. (2025). Kirigami-inspired parachutes with programmable reconfiguration. Nature, 646(8083), 88-94. External link
Liétard, Y., Therriault, D., & Mélançon, D. (2025). Exploiting geometric frustration in coupled von mises trusses to program multifunctional mechanical metamaterials. Advanced Engineering Materials, 27(11), 2402006 (9 pages). Available
Lamoureux, D., Ramananarivo, S., Mélançon, D., & Gosselin, F. (2025). Simulating flow-induced reconfiguration by coupling corotational plate finite elements with a simplified pressure drag. Extreme Mechanics Letters, 74, 102271 (8 pages). Available
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. Unavailable
Mélançon, D. (2022). Functionality through multistability: From deployable structures to soft robots [Ph.D. Thesis, Harvard University]. Unavailable
Mélançon, D., Forte, A. E., Kamp, L. M., Gorissen, B., & Bertoldi, K. (2022). Inflatable origami: Multimodal deformation via multistability. Advanced Functional Materials, 32(35), 2201891. External link
Mhatre, S., Boatti, E., Mélançon, D., Zareei, A., Dupont, M., Bechthold, M., & Bertoldi, K. (2021). Deployable structures based on buckling of curved beams upon a rotational input. Advanced Functional Materials, 31(35), 2101144. External link
Mélançon, D., Bertoldi, K., Gorissen, B., & Hoberman, C. Multistable inflatable origami structures at the meter-scale [Abstract]. APS March Meeting Abstracts. External link
Mélançon, D., Gorissen, B., García-Mora, C. J., Hoberman, C., & Bertoldi, K. (2021). Multistable inflatable origami structures at the metre scale. Nature, 592(7855), 545-550. External link
Moussa, A., Mélançon, D., El Elmi, A., & Pasini, D. (2021). Topology optimization of imperfect lattice materials built with process-induced defects via powder bed fusion. Additive Manufacturing, 37, 101608. External link
Mélançon, D., Hoberman, C., Gorissen, B., Garcia Mora, C., Yang, Y., Ku, J., Demaine, E., & Bertoldi, K. Inflatable origami-inspired structures [Abstract]. APS March Meeting Abstracts. External link
Mélançon, D., Bagheri, Z. S., Johnston, R. B., Liu, L., Tänzer, M., & Pasini, D. (2017). Mechanical characterization of structurally porous biomaterials built via additive manufacturing: experiments, predictive models, and design maps for load-bearing bone replacement implants. Acta Biomaterialia, 63, 350-368. External link
Mélançon, D. (2017). Structural porous biomaterials to replace bone tissue design, manufacturing, and mechanical characterization [Master's Thesis, McGill University (Canada)]. Unavailable
Pernigoni, L., Farhadi, D., Mélançon, D., Grande, A., & Bertoldi, K. Multimodal locomotion via folding of a degree-four vertex [Abstract]. APS March Meeting Abstracts. External link
Risso, G., Isbled, M., Mélançon, D., & Bertoldi, K. (2025). Twisting-induced instabilities in double-helix chiral rods. Physical Review Letters, 135(1), 018202 (6 pages). External link
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). External link
