Phononic materials are periodically arranged building blocks in the form of material
properties, geometries, and/or boundary conditions. This synthetic architecture makes …

Phononic crystals (PnCs) and acoustic metamaterials (AMMs) are artificially architected
materials endowed with the capabilities of wave manipulation. This review specifically …

In this paper we review recent progress on the analysis, experimental exploration, and
application of elastic wave propagation in weakly nonlinear media and metamaterials. We …

Metamaterials are artificial microstructured media that exhibit unique effective material
properties and can be tailored to achieve negative properties that inhibit the propagation of …

A novel tunable nonlinear metastructure with periodically distributed bi-linear oscillators
(BLOs) is proposed for broadband vibration suppression. The BLO with non-smooth …

Flexible and tunable devices have, for decades, been the subject of many research areas,
including, integrated systems, flexible electronics and photonics, which are calling for …

Reconfigurable structures have gained importance in soft robotics, for deployable and
shape-morphing systems, as well as in programmable metamaterials with controllable static …

This paper reports dynamical effects in one-dimensional locally resonant piezoelectric
metastructures leveraged by nonlinear electrical attachments featuring either combined …

Mode conversion of elastic waves is ubiquitous in solids and has various applications in
medical imaging, signal processing, vibration suppression, etc. Nonlinear harmonic …

Nonlinear periodic structures can present abundant nonlinear wave physics. The model
consisting of periodic bistable oscillators (ie, the bistable periodic structure) is essentially …