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Martin van Hecke

Martin van Hecke

D-Index & Metrics

Engineering and Technology

D-Index
48
Citations
11409
World Ranking
4488
National Ranking
93

Overview

Martin van Hecke is affiliated with Leiden University in the Netherlands and has contributed extensively to the field of engineering, with a primary focus on mechanical engineering. Their research spans various subfields, including mechanical engineering, biomedical engineering, civil and structural engineering, mechanics of materials, and materials chemistry.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Advanced Materials and Mechanics
  • Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence
  • Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials
  • Adhesion, Friction, and Surface Interactions
  • Cellular and Composite Structures
  • Structural Analysis and Optimization
  • Acoustic Wave Phenomena Research

Van Hecke's recent publications demonstrate a focus on mechanical metamaterials and shape-morphing structures. Notable papers include:

  • "Complex pathways and memory in compressed corrugated sheets," 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Counting and Sequential Information Processing in Mechanical Metamaterials," 2023, Physical Review Letters
  • "Multistable sheets with rewritable patterns for switchable shape-morphing," 2023, Nature
  • "Machine Learning of Implicit Combinatorial Rules in Mechanical Metamaterials," 2022, Physical Review Letters
  • "Sequential snapping and pathways in a mechanical metamaterial," 2022, The Journal of Chemical Physics

The scientist frequently collaborates with others in their field. Regular co-authors include:

  • Corentin Coulais
  • Ryan van Mastrigt
  • Marjolein Dijkstra
  • Lennard J. Kwakernaak
  • Hadrien Bense

Van Hecke's work has been published predominantly in venues such as arXiv, Zenodo, Physical Review Letters, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Physical Review E, illustrating a consistent engagement with high-impact scientific journals and preprint repositories.

Best Publications

  • Flexible mechanical metamaterials

    Katia Bertoldi;Vincenzo Vitelli;Vincenzo Vitelli;Johan Christensen;Martin van Hecke

  • 3D metamaterials

    Unknown

  • Programmable Mechanical Metamaterials

    Bastiaan Florijn;Corentin Coulais;Martin van Hecke

  • Combinatorial design of textured mechanical metamaterials

    Corentin Coulais;Corentin Coulais;Eial Teomy;Koen de Reus;Yair Shokef

  • Origami multistability: from single vertices to metasheets.

    Scott Waitukaitis;Rémi Menaut;Bryan Gin-ge Chen;Martin van Hecke

  • Shear Bands in Matter with Granularity

    Peter Schall;Martin van Hecke

  • Critical scaling in linear response of frictionless granular packings near jamming.

    Wouter G Ellenbroek;Ellák Somfai;Martin van Hecke;Wim van Saarloos

  • Force network ensemble : a new approach to static granular matter

    Jacco H. Snoeijer;Thijs J. H. Vlugt;Martin van Hecke;Wim van Saarloos

  • Improved piercing of microneedle arrays in dermatomed human skin by an impact insertion method

    FJ Verbaan;SM Bal;DJ van den Berg;JA Dijksman

  • Multi-step self-guided pathways for shape-changing metamaterials.

    Corentin Coulais;Corentin Coulais;Alberico Sabbadini;Fré Vink;Martin van Hecke

  • Kinematics: wide shear zones in granular bulk flow.

    Denis Fenistein;Martin van Hecke

  • Elastic wave propagation in confined granular systems

    Ellák Somfai;Jean-Noël Roux;Jacco H. Snoeijer;Martin van Hecke

  • Critical and noncritical jamming of frictional grains.

    Ellák Somfai;Martin van Hecke;Wouter G. Ellenbroek;Kostya Shundyak

  • Universal and Wide Shear Zones in Granular Bulk Flow

    Denis Fenistein;Jan Willem van de Meent;Martin van Hecke

  • Invited Article: Refractive index matched scanning of dense granular materials

    Joshua A. Dijksman;Frank Rietz;Kinga A. Lörincz;Martin van Hecke

  • Model for the scaling of stresses and fluctuations in flows near jamming.

    Brian P. Tighe;Erik Woldhuis;Joris J. C. Remmers;Wim Van Saarloos

  • Flow-induced agitations create a granular fluid.

    Kiri Nichol;Alexey Zanin;Renaud Bastien;Elie Wandersman

  • Force mobilization and generalized isostaticity in jammed packings of frictional grains.

    Kostya Shundyak;Martin van Hecke;Wim van Saarloos

  • A characteristic length scale causes anomalous size effects and boundary programmability in mechanical metamaterials

    Corentin Coulais;Corentin Coulais;Chris Kettenis;Martin van Hecke

  • Jamming, yielding, and rheology of weakly vibrated granular media.

    Joshua A. Dijksman;Joshua A. Dijksman;Geert H. Wortel;Louwrens T. H. van Dellen;Olivier Dauchot

  • Building Blocks of Spatiotemporal Intermittency

    Martin van Hecke

  • Rate Dependence and Role of Disorder in Linearly Sheared Two-Dimensional Foams

    Gijs Katgert;Matthias E. Möbius;Martin van Hecke

  • Non-affine response: jammed packings versus spring networks

    Wouter G. Ellenbroek;Zorana Zeravcic;Wim van Saarloos;Martin van Hecke

  • Shocks near Jamming

    Leopoldo R. Gómez;Ari M. Turner;Martin van Hecke;Vincenzo Vitelli

  • Discontinuous Buckling of Wide Beams and Metabeams.

    Corentin Coulais;Corentin Coulais;Johannes Tesse bastiaan Overvelde;Luuk A. Lubbers;Luuk A. Lubbers;Katia Bertoldi

  • Soft-Sphere Packings at Finite Pressure but Unstable to Shear

    Simon Dagois-Bohy;Brian P. Tighe;Brian P. Tighe;Johannes Simon;Silke Henkes;Silke Henkes

  • Jammed frictionless disks: Connecting local and global response.

    Wouter G. Ellenbroek;Wouter G. Ellenbroek;Martin van Hecke;Wim van Saarloos

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Jacco H. Snoeijer
Jacco H. Snoeijer University of Twente
Thijs J. H. Vlugt
Thijs J. H. Vlugt Delft University of Technology
Tomas Bohr
Tomas Bohr Technical University of Denmark
Ken Haste Andersen
Ken Haste Andersen Technical University of Denmark
Katia Bertoldi
Katia Bertoldi Harvard University
Paul B. Umbanhowar
Paul B. Umbanhowar Northwestern University
Martin Zimmermann
Martin Zimmermann Hannover Medical School
Daniel Bonn
Daniel Bonn University of Amsterdam
Robert Hołyst
Robert Hołyst Polish Academy of Sciences
Gary S. Grest
Gary S. Grest Sandia National Laboratories

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