Phononic crystals (PCs) and metamaterials (MMs) can exhibit abnormal properties, even far
beyond those found in nature, through artificial design of the topology or ordered structure of …

Instabilities in solids and structures are ubiquitous across all length and time scales, and
engineering design principles have commonly aimed at preventing instability. However …

From protein motifs to black holes, topological solitons are pervasive nonlinear excitations
that are robust and can be driven by external fields. So far, existing driving mechanisms all …

A novel one-dimensional quasi-zero-stiffness (QZS) metamaterial is proposed to acquire
very low-frequency band gaps. The representative unit cell (RUC) of the QZS metamaterials …

We present a monolithic mechanical metamaterial comprising a periodic arrangement of
snapping units with tunable tensile behavior. Under tension, the metamaterial undergoes a …

Soft structures with rationally designed architectures capable of large, nonlinear deformation
present opportunities for unprecedented, highly tunable devices and machines. However …

Acoustic metamaterials with negative constitutive parameters (modulus and/or mass density)
have shown great potential in diverse applications ranging from sonic cloaking, abnormal …

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

Compared with traditional energy dissipation structures, negative stiffness metamaterials
can repeatedly dissipate energy without incurring irreversible plastic deformation. The …

This work investigates the amplitude-dependent dynamics of a locally resonant
metamaterial beam with bistable attachments. The concept that was previously …