Rational designs of mechanical metamaterials: Formulations, architectures, tessellations and prospects

J Gao, X Cao, M Xiao, Z Yang, X Zhou, Y Li… - Materials Science and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Mechanical Metamaterials (MMs) are artificially designed structures with
extraordinary properties that are dependent on micro architectures and spatial tessellations …

Mechanics of hard-magnetic soft materials: A review

L Lu, J Sim, RR Zhao - Mechanics of Materials, 2024 - Elsevier
Hard-magnetic soft materials are a class of magnetically responsive composites obtained by
embedding hard-magnetic particles into a soft polymeric matrix. They have found …

Tunable anti-plane wave bandgaps in 2D periodic hard-magnetic soft composites

S Padmanabhan, Z Alam, AK Sharma - International Journal of Mechanical …, 2024 - Elsevier
In this paper, we present a theoretical model for the analysis of large magneto-deformation
and the anti-plane shear wave bandgaps in 2D periodic two-phase hard magnetic soft …

Magnetically tunable longitudinal wave band gaps in hard-magnetic soft laminates

Z Alam, S Padmanabhan, AK Sharma - International Journal of Mechanical …, 2023 - Elsevier
Hard-magnetic soft materials belong to the class of active materials that undergo finite
deformation and alter their material properties when subjected to magnetic loading …

Mechanical energy metamaterials in interstellar travel

P Jiao - Progress in Materials Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Nanoscale spacecrafts have shed light on an audacious but promising vision for interstellar
travel to neighboring planets beyond the solar system. The nanocrafts can be accelerated to …

Magneto‐Mechanical Bilayer Metamaterial with Global Area‐Preserving Density Tunability for Acoustic Wave Regulation

J Sim, S Wu, J Dai, RR Zhao - Advanced Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract 2D metamaterials have immense potential in acoustics, optics, and electromagnetic
applications due to their unique properties and ability to conform to curved substrates. Active …

Viscoelastic effects on the nonlinear oscillations of hard-magnetic soft actuators

S Nandan, D Sharma… - Journal of Applied …, 2023 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
The hard-magnetic soft materials (HMSMs) belong to the magnetoactive category of smart
polymers that undergo large actuation strain under an externally applied magnetic field and …

Elastic metamaterials for guided waves: from fundamentals to applications

J Lee, YY Kim - Smart Materials and Structures, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Guided waves, elastic waves propagating through bounded structures, play a pivotal role in
various applications, including ultrasonic non-destructive testing and structural health …

[HTML][HTML] Nonlinear elastic vector solitons in hard-magnetic soft mechanical metamaterials

Q Zhang, AV Cherkasov, C Xie, N Arora… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
We propose a design of a metamaterial for magnetically tunable propagation of nonlinear
vector solitary waves. The metamaterial consists of a periodic array of units of hard-magnetic …

Wave manipulation in intelligent metamaterials: recent progress and prospects

B Wu, W Jiang, J Jiang, Z Zhao, Y Tang… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Metamaterials (MMs), which include phononic crystals (PCs) as a particular type, exhibit
anomalous wave propagation properties through artificial design of topologies or lattice …