Flexure-based compliant mechanisms are becoming increasingly promising in precision
engineering, robotics, and other applications due to the excellent advantages of no friction …

This paper presents a comprehensive review of the various research methods and theory
calculation models that are employed in engineering to study the static and dynamic …

This paper is concerned with flexural wave propagation and vibration transmission in beams
with periodically attached vibration absorbers. Such periodic systems feature unique wave …

The growing use of composite materials for aerospace applications has resulted in the need
for quantitative methods to analyze composite components. Ultrasonic guided waves …

Band gaps in elastic metamaterial rods with spatial periodic distribution and periodically
attached local resonators are investigated. New techniques to analyze metamaterial …

In order to enhance the vibration reduction capacity in a wide frequency range, a novel
acoustic metamaterial beam with periodically variable cross-sections is designed by …

Wave propagation and vibration transmission in metamaterial-based elastic rods containing
periodically attached multi-degree-of-freedom spring–mass resonators are investigated. A …

In this paper, we present a design of locally resonant (LR) beams using periodic arrays of
beam-like resonators (or beam-like vibration absorbers) attached to a thin homogeneous …

In this paper, a tunable beam-type metamaterial composed of elastic base beams and
periodically arrayed active beam-type resonators is designed and analyzed theoretically …

Although conventional metamaterials possess extraordinary properties, they cannot meet
the practical requirements of engineering structures subjected to both temperature …