About and contact

Credits

Developed by Paul Ducarme since 2021.

Acknowledgment:

• Bas Overvelde and the Soft Robotic Matter group
• Martin van Hecke and the Mechanical Metamaterials group
• Bart Weber and the Contact Dynamics group
• Dutch research institutes of AMOLF and ARCNL
• Fundings from the Dutch Research Council NWO and semiconductor equipment manufacturer ASML
• The beautiful and welcoming city of Amsterdam

Cite us!

If springable or the concept of flexel has been useful for your work, your research or your projects, we strongly encourage you to cite our paper:

Ducarme, P., Weber, B., van Hecke, M., & Overvelde, J. T. B. (2026). Flexel ecosystem: Simulating mechanical systems made from entities with arbitrarily complex mechanical responses. Extreme Mechanics Letters. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eml.2026.102476

Thanks!

Found a bug? Feature ideas? Questions?

You can share it via https://github.com/ducarme/springable/issues or simply by sending an email at paulducarme@hotmail.com.

General inquiries

Feel free to contact the author at paulducarme@hotmail.com