Phononic materials are artificial composites with unprecedented abilities to control acoustic
waves in solids. Their performance is mainly governed by their architecture, determining …

The design of lightweight and stiff structures with attractive vibration damping properties is a
major issue in mechanical engineering. The insertion of Acoustic Black Holes (ABH) in a …

Stiffness tuning is crucial in developing many advanced engineering systems such as
morphing aircraft, soft robotics, etc. Achieving a significant stiffness change while …

The perfect absorption of bending waves by thermally tunable subwavelength absorbers is
analytically and experimentally demonstrated in this work for a reflection problem in beams …

Multi-layered design is an effective method to improve the damping performance of
structures. The existing research focuses more on the multi-layered design of the structure …

In this work we present a new concept for friction damping which is based on the permanent
magnetization and the flexibility of magnetoactive elastomers (MAE). The concept is called …

This paper introduces a new concept for shape memory based on elastic forces and
magnetically induced friction forces in composite materials consisting of magnetoactive …

Recently, the development of damping materials has attracted attention to the field of
vibration suppression. In this study, a pre-stressed composite sandwich beam was made …

This paper reports the dynamic performance of novel aerospace structures with embedded
multiphase materials with tunable stiffness and damping parameters. The proposed …

This study presents the finite element modeling of an adaptive sandwich structure that can
be configured to exhibit various behaviors depending on the arrangement of the …