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

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

Metamaterials are periodic structures made by repeating a unit cell. Such a structure shows
frequency-specific wave attenuation behaviour. In this work, a 2D metamaterial foundation is …

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 …

Metamaterials are making a breakthrough in seismic wave manipulation with their ability to
yield wave filtration properties that cannot be realized inherently through conventional …

In this study, a triangular array of cylindrical holes was shown to function as a local resonator
to seismic metamaterials against the vibration generator loading in the geophysics concept …

Artificial soils engineered with periodic or resonant structures, also referred as “seismic
metamaterials” have been investigated for earthquake mitigation applications. In particular …

Most current shielding mechanisms against seismic disturbances fail in protecting structures
from low-frequency vibrations typically in the range of 1–10 Hz. This paper proposes a novel …

Metamaterials provide an unprecedented solution for seismic hazard mitigation by blocking
seismic wave transmission. This paper investigates the wave attenuation capability of one …

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 …