Rainbow-trapping absorbers: Broadband, perfect and asymmetric sound absorption by subwavelength panels for transmission problems

N Jiménez, V Romero-García, V Pagneux, JP Groby - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Perfect, broadband and asymmetric sound absorption is theoretically, numerically and
experimentally reported by using subwavelength thickness panels in a transmission …

From photonic crystals to seismic metamaterials: A review via phononic crystals and acoustic metamaterials

Muhammad, CW Lim - Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering, 2022 - Springer
The advancement in electromagnetic metamaterials, which commenced three decades ago,
experienced a rapid transformation into acoustic and elastic systems in the forms of …

[HTML][HTML] Engineered metabarrier as shield from seismic surface waves

A Palermo, S Krödel, A Marzani, C Daraio - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
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 …

Graded elastic metasurface for enhanced energy harvesting

JM De Ponti, A Colombi, R Ardito, F Braghin… - New Journal of …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
In elastic wave systems, combining the powerful concepts of resonance and spatial grading
within structured surface arrays enable resonant metasurfaces to exhibit broadband wave …

Artificially engineered metaconcrete with wide bandgap for seismic surface wave manipulation

Z Chen, G Wang, CW Lim - Engineering Structures, 2023 - Elsevier
The energy of ground-born vibration is transported mostly by surface waves. Therefore,
engineered structures which absorb externally applied energy and improve structural …

Built-up structural steel sections as seismic metamaterials for surface wave attenuation with low frequency wide bandgap in layered soil medium

CW Lim, JN Reddy - Engineering Structures, 2019 - Elsevier
The purpose of this work is to investigate the propagation of surface waves through
periodically arranged built-up steel section (resonator) in single and multiple layered soil …

Topological rainbow trapping for elastic energy harvesting in graded Su-Schrieffer-Heeger systems

GJ Chaplain, JM De Ponti, G Aguzzi, A Colombi… - Physical Review …, 2020 - APS
We amalgamate two fundamental designs from distinct areas of wave control in physics, and
place them in the setting of elasticity. Graded elastic metasurfaces, so-called metawedges …

Temperature-controlled elastic wave transport in topological ferroelectric phononic crystal plates

Z Chen, W Zhou - International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 2023 - Elsevier
Thermally tunable elastic wave transport with controllable topological properties in a thin
plate is investigated. For the prior plate-type phononic crystals designed with passive …

Review of exploiting nonlinearity in phononic materials to enable nonlinear wave responses

GU Patil, KH Matlack - Acta Mechanica, 2022 - Springer
Phononic materials are periodically arranged building blocks in the form of material
properties, geometries, and/or boundary conditions. This synthetic architecture makes …

[HTML][HTML] Seismic metasurfaces: Sub-wavelength resonators and Rayleigh wave interaction

DJ Colquitt, A Colombi, RV Craster, P Roux… - Journal of the …, 2017 - Elsevier
We consider the canonical problem of an array of rods, which act as resonators, placed on
an elastic substrate; the substrate being either a thin elastic plate or an elastic half-space. In …