Waves in structured mediums or metamaterials: a review

A Banerjee, R Das, EP Calius - Archives of Computational Methods in …, 2019 - Springer
Wave propagation through a structured medium has attracted the attention of researchers for
centuries due to its relevance to problems in condensed matter physics, chemistry, optics …

[HTML][HTML] Application of elastic metamaterials/meta-structures in civil engineering: A review

N Contreras, X Zhang, H Hao, F Hernández - Composite Structures, 2023 - Elsevier
Inspired by sonic engineering, locally resonant metamaterials have attracted much attention
from researchers in civil engineering for their unique characteristics of stress wave …

Wide band-gap seismic metastructures

S Krödel, N Thomé, C Daraio - Extreme Mechanics Letters, 2015 - Elsevier
Metamaterials exploit local resonances to reflect acoustic signals with wavelengths well
above the characteristic size of the material's structure. This has allowed obtaining materials …

Artificially engineered metaconcrete with wide bandgap for seismic surface wave manipulation

Z Chen, G Wang, CW Lim - Engineering Structures, 2023 - Elsevier
The energy of ground-born vibration is transported mostly by surface waves. Therefore,
engineered structures which absorb externally applied energy and improve structural …

[HTML][HTML] 3D acoustic metamaterial-based mechanical metalattice structures for low-frequency and broadband vibration attenuation

X An, C Lai, H Fan, C Zhang - International Journal of Solids and Structures, 2020 - Elsevier
In this paper, a new type of three-dimensional (3D) truss-lattice structures for low-frequency
and broadband elastic wave absorption is proposed. The local resonance mechanism used …

Towards optimal design of locally resonant acoustic metamaterials

AO Krushynska, VG Kouznetsova… - Journal of the Mechanics …, 2014 - Elsevier
The paper presents an in-depth analysis of solid locally resonant acoustic metamaterials
(LRAMs) consisting of rubber-coated inclusions. Dispersion properties of two-dimensional …

Elastic wave band gaps in a three-dimensional periodic metamaterial using the plane wave expansion method

VF Dal Poggetto, AL Serpa - International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 2020 - Elsevier
In this work, a novel Fourier series expansion is proposed for representing periodic three-
dimensional metamaterials consisting of spherical inclusions in a cubic lattice, which allows …

Impact mitigation performance of hybrid metamaterial with a low frequency bandgap

Y Zhou, L Ye, W Chen - International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 2022 - Elsevier
Elastic metamaterials exhibit a significant potential in wave attenuation and impact
mitigation application owing to their unusual dynamic performance. This work is aimed at …

Interactive inverse design of layered phononic crystals based on reinforcement learning

C Luo, S Ning, Z Liu, Z Zhuang - Extreme Mechanics Letters, 2020 - Elsevier
As supervised learning has been successfully applied in mechanics, reinforcement learning
is being attempted to be used to solve mechanical problems more intelligently. In this study …

A reinvestigation of the spring-mass model for metamaterial bandgap prediction

NH Vo, TM Pham, H Hao, K Bi, W Chen - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Metaconcrete and meta-truss bar are a new type of material and structure with extraordinary
characteristics that cannot be found in nature. Metamaterials/metastructures possess the …