The energy of ground-born vibration is transported mostly by surface waves. Therefore,
engineered structures which absorb externally applied energy and improve structural …

Resonant metamaterials have been proposed to reflect or redirect elastic waves at different
length scales, ranging from thermal vibrations to seismic excitation. However, for seismic …

Controlling the propagation of seismic waves to protect critical infrastructure via
metamaterial is of new topical interest. This approach can be implemented by remote …

Metamaterials have been widely studied for their advantage in the effective control of the
propagation of mechanical waves. However, existing methods are limited in controlling the …

The present study proposes two types of engineered resonant metabarrier designs for
ground born vibration attenuation at subwavelength frequency region. By establishing …

A novel seismic metamaterial plate consisting of two common building materials, which has
the advantages of simple structure and easy to realize, is proposed. The seismic …

The article analyses two potential metamaterial designs, the metafoundation and the
metabarrier, capable to attenuate seismic waves impact on buildings or structural …

In last two decades, it has been theoretically and experimentally demonstrated that seismic
metamaterials are capable of isolating seismic surface waves. Inertial amplification …

To protect engineering structures from being destroyed by earthquakes, seismic
metamaterials have been proposed for Rayleigh wave attenuation. Introducing nonlinearity …

Broadband attenuation of low frequency acoustic waves in compact structure designs is a
challenging issue, especially in the application to seismic waves. In this work, we propose a …