Acoustic metamaterials: From local resonances to broad horizons

G Ma, P Sheng - Science advances, 2016 - science.org
Within a time span of 15 years, acoustic metamaterials have emerged from academic
curiosity to become an active field driven by scientific discoveries and diverse application …

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 …

Hierarchical re-entrant honeycomb metamaterial for energy absorption and vibration insulation

N Ma, Q Han, S Han, C Li - International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 2023 - Elsevier
A novel hierarchical re-entrant honeycomb metamaterial is proposed by integrating the re-
entrant honeycomb (RH) with square unit cell and named as square re-entrant honeycomb …

Negative refraction of elastic waves at the deep-subwavelength scale in a single-phase metamaterial

R Zhu, XN Liu, GK Hu, CT Sun, GL Huang - Nature communications, 2014 - nature.com
Negative refraction of elastic waves has been studied and experimentally demonstrated in
three-and two-dimensional phononic crystals, but Bragg scattering is impractical for low …

Coupled membranes with doubly negative mass density and bulk modulus

M Yang, G Ma, Z Yang, P Sheng - Physical review letters, 2013 - APS
We present a structurally and conceptually simple acoustic double negative metamaterial
comprising two coupled membranes. Owing to its symmetry, the system can generate both …

Hybrid elastic solids

Y Lai, Y Wu, P Sheng, ZQ Zhang - Nature materials, 2011 - nature.com
Metamaterials can exhibit electromagnetic and elastic characteristics beyond those found in
nature. In this work, we present a design of elastic metamaterial that exhibits multiple …

Elastic metamaterials with simultaneously negative effective shear modulus and mass density

Y Wu, Y Lai, ZQ Zhang - Physical review letters, 2011 - APS
We propose a type of elastic metamaterial comprising fluid-solid composite inclusions which
can possess a negative shear modulus and negative mass density over a large frequency …

Wave propagation in two-dimensional viscoelastic metamaterials

YF Wang, YS Wang, V Laude - Physical Review B, 2015 - APS
Propagation of elastic waves in acoustic metamaterials based on locally resonant
viscoelastic phononic crystals is discussed. A variational formulation of the complex band …

Acoustic metamaterial with negative density

SH Lee, CM Park, YM Seo, ZG Wang, CK Kim - Physics letters A, 2009 - Elsevier
We fabricated a one-dimensional acoustic metamaterial with negative effective density using
an array of very thin elastic membranes. We observed acoustic equivalence of the plasma …

Wave propagation characterization and design of two-dimensional elastic chiral metacomposite

XN Liu, GK Hu, CT Sun, GL Huang - Journal of Sound and Vibration, 2011 - Elsevier
In this work, a chiral metacomposite is proposed by integrating two-dimensional periodic
chiral lattice with elastic metamaterial inclusions for low-frequency wave applications. The …