In recent years, elastic metamaterials inspired from electromagnetic metamaterials have
been used to protect buildings during earthquakes, and their effectiveness in seismic wave …

This article presents a brief survey on some of the latest developments in the area of
reliability-based design optimization of structural systems under stochastic excitation. The …

This study presents a large-scale shaking table investigation aimed at the development of a
dual, low-cost hybrid design approach for the reduction of seismic damage in developing …

Surface wave manipulation in periodic trench barriers based on real band structures has its
inherent limitations. This work revisits this problem from the perspective of complex band …

Locally resonant metamaterial structures, ie, structures artificially engineered with periodic
arrays of small resonators, are attracting a growing interest among scientists. The main …

A partially embedded gradient metabarrier (PEGM) for seismic Rayleigh waves was
designed and studied using the finite-element method (FEM). Investigations on the partially …

Longitudinal elastic wave propagation characteristics of a proposed inerter-in-lattice
metamaterial (ILM) were investigated. Its local resonance emerges from the additional …

Structures with periodically arranged resonators have attracted attention within
vibroacoustics recently. These periodic structures attenuate wave propagation in a defined …

The frequency bandgap of periodic structures has many potential applications. Topology
optimization of the unit cell of periodic structures offers great potential to design periodic …

The locally resonant periodic foundation (LRPF) is a recently proposed isolation foundation
for seismic protection of buildings based on filtering frequency components of ground …