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 …

Wave manipulation in intelligent metamaterials: recent progress and prospects

B Wu, W Jiang, J Jiang, Z Zhao, Y Tang… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Metamaterials (MMs), which include phononic crystals (PCs) as a particular type, exhibit
anomalous wave propagation properties through artificial design of topologies or lattice …

Widely tunable magnetorheological metamaterials with nonlinear amplification mechanism

Y Xue, J Li, Y Wang, Z Song, AO Krushynska - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper proposes the design of an active nonlinear metamaterial for broadband and
tunable low-frequency wave attenuation governed by a lever-based nonlinear amplification …

[HTML][HTML] Design, material, function, and fabrication of metamaterials

AA Zadpoor, MJ Mirzaali, L Valdevit, JB Hopkins - APL Materials, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Metamaterials are engineered materials with unusual, unique properties and advanced
functionalities that are a direct consequence of their microarchitecture. While initial …

[HTML][HTML] Nonlinear elastic vector solitons in hard-magnetic soft mechanical metamaterials

Q Zhang, AV Cherkasov, C Xie, N Arora… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
We propose a design of a metamaterial for magnetically tunable propagation of nonlinear
vector solitary waves. The metamaterial consists of a periodic array of units of hard-magnetic …

Hybrid spin and anomalous spin-momentum locking in surface elastic waves

C Yang, D Zhang, J Zhao, W Gao, W Yuan, Y Long… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
Transverse spin of surface waves is a universal phenomenon which has recently attracted
significant attention in optics and acoustics. It appears in gravity water waves, surface …

Polarization-independent full mode-converting elastic metasurfaces

W Lee, J Lee, CI Park, YY Kim - International Journal of Mechanical …, 2024 - Elsevier
This investigation proposes a novel elastic metasurface tailored to convert a longitudinal
wave into a transverse wave and vice versa at an arbitrary refraction angle with full (100%) …

[HTML][HTML] Magnetoactive asymmetric mechanical metamaterial for tunable elastic cloaking

Q Zhang, G Hu, S Rudykh - International Journal of Solids and Structures, 2024 - Elsevier
We propose a magnetic field-induced asymmetric mechanical metamaterial for tunable
transformation-based elastic cloaking. The metamaterial is designed by integrating hard …

Bandgap structure in elastic metamaterials with curvy Bezier beams

V Slesarenko - Applied Physics Letters, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
This Letter discusses elastic metamaterials incorporating curved beams in their architecture.
Through employing Bezier splines, we reveal a wide versatility of geometrical designs of the …

[HTML][HTML] Orthopedic meta-implants

MJ Mirzaali, AA Zadpoor - APL bioengineering, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Meta-biomaterials, engineered materials with distinctive combinations of mechanical,
physical, and biological properties stemming from their micro-architecture, have emerged as …