Can Meta-Soil Attenuate Seismic Waves?

LN Gawelko - 2019 - etda.libraries.psu.edu
… Recently, advances in the understanding of metamaterials have allowed the creation of …
resonance frequency range of the metawedge is 30-120 Hz, which is higher than most seismic

Mitigation of seismic waves: Metabarriers and metafoundations bench tested

A Colombi, R Zaccherini, G Aguzzi, A Palermo… - Journal of Sound and …, 2020 - Elsevier
… Having assessed the impact of the hollow concrete cell structure on the wavefield, we
begin the analysis of the actual resonant seismic metamaterial. We commence by exciting a …

Seismic metasurfaces for broadband vibration mitigation in layered soil

D Carneiro, P Reumers, G Lombaert… - … Dynamics and Earthquake …, 2024 - Elsevier
… in close proximity to the metawedge, indicating that seismic metasurfaces should be installed
… Two main types of seismic metamaterials are used. Non-resonant seismic metamaterials

Vibration mitigation using seismic metamaterials on layered soil

D Carneiro, Z Kabirian, P Reumers… - Journal of Physics …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
… Figure 3a shows the resonance frequencies of the considered inverse metawedge, ranging
from 40Hz to 70Hz. The peak values of the wavenumber-frequency spectrum are reduced …

Emergence of seismic metamaterials: Current state and future perspectives

S Brûlé, S Enoch, S Guenneau - Physics Letters A, 2020 - Elsevier
… the elementary cell of a metamaterial may contain one (or more) resonant element in order
to … Care needs to be taken with the implementation of such a metawedge as depending upon …

A review of research on seismic metamaterials

D Mu, H Shu, L Zhao, S An - Advanced Engineering Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
… holes corresponding to the resonance frequency of seismic waves around the protected …
with a known target frequency and the metawedges covering a larger frequency range with a …

Artificially engineered metaconcrete with wide bandgap for seismic surface wave manipulation

Z Chen, G Wang, CW Lim - Engineering Structures, 2023 - Elsevier
… as metawedge have been investigated to create a seismic rainbow and … seismic metamaterial
for broadband surface Rayleigh wave manipulation, where the embedded local resonance

A nonlinear seismic metamaterial lying on layered soils

J Lou, X Fang, H Fan, J Du - Engineering Structures, 2022 - Elsevier
… [24] explored the role of forests as locally resonant metamaterials on Rayleigh wave …
They further designed a resonant metawedge by arranging pillars with graded length on an …

Assessment of the metawedge as a mitigation measure for railway induced ground vibration

A Bracci, A Fărăgău, A Metrikine… - Journal of Physics …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
… Nonetheless, this study shows that metamaterials-inspired solutions can play an important …
the Rayleigh mode hybridization with the surface resonances [18]. Without the resonators, the …

Wide Rayleigh waves bandgap engineered metabarriers for ground born vibration attenuation

CW Lim, KK Żur - Engineering Structures, 2021 - Elsevier
… concept of seismic resonant metawedges and forest trees as seismic metamaterial was reported
… [32], [33] investigated the Rayleigh wave mitigation by multiple arrays of resonant forest …