The study of granular crystals, which are nonlinear metamaterials that consist of closely
packed arrays of particles that interact elastically, is a vibrant area of research that combines …

In this comprehensive review we present, discuss, and compare a number of theoretical
approaches to the propagation of impulses in granular chains found in the literature …

In the present work, we attempt a brief summary of various areas where non-linear waves
have been emerging in the phenomenology of lattice dynamical systems. These areas …

We numerically and experimentally investigate impact/blast-induced shock mitigation using
a quasi-1D woodpile mechanical metamaterial consisting of slender cylindrical rods. In this …

The study of mechanics of granular media dates back to the era of Coulomb. He was the first
to postulate the yield condition for homogeneous solids and also conditions for failure in …

In this work, we study the mitigation of stress waves in composite-based woodpile phononic
crystals composed of heterogeneous cylindrical rods, whose bending mode exhibits local …

Nonlinear acoustic processes of second harmonic generation and nonlinear resonances in
a diatomic granular chain (a granular phononic crystal) with static precompression are …

We report experiments on the dynamics of vibrated particles constrained in a two-
dimensional vertical container, motivated by the following question: how to get the most out …

We study the interaction among dispersion, nonlinearity, and disorder effects in the context
of wave transmission through a discrete periodic structure, subjected to continuous …

We study the spreading of initially localized excitations in one-dimensional disordered
granular crystals. We thereby investigate localization phenomena in strongly nonlinear …