Mechanical metamaterials and beyond

P Jiao, J Mueller, JR Raney, X Zheng… - Nature communications, 2023 - nature.com
Mechanical metamaterials enable the creation of structural materials with unprecedented
mechanical properties. However, thus far, research on mechanical metamaterials has …

Advances in tunable bandgaps of piezoelectric phononic crystals

Y Wang, X Xu, L Li - Materials, 2023 - mdpi.com
Bandgaps of traditional phononic crystals (PCs) are determined using structural geometric
parameters and material properties, and they are difficult to tune in practical applications …

Active band gap control of magnetorheological meta-plate using frequency feedback control law

J Li, Y Xue, F Li - Journal of Sound and Vibration, 2023 - Elsevier
An innovative special class of magnetorheological metamaterial is proposed to achieve a
tunable band gap using a new frequency feedback control law. By using the frequency …

Analytical and experimental study of a metamaterial beam with grading piezoelectric transducers for vibration attenuation band widening

Y Jian, G Hu, L Tang, W Tang, M Abdi, KC Aw - Engineering Structures, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper analytically and experimentally investigates the potential of a piezoelectric
metamaterial beam with a spatial grading pattern for broadband vibration attenuation …

Perforated auxetic honeycomb booster with reentrant chirality: a new design for high-efficiency piezoelectric energy harvesting

M Ravanbod, S Ebrahimi-Nejad - Mechanics of Advanced …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The present study develops an auxetic meta-structure booster to advance piezoelectric
energy harvesting (PEH). The model comprised a three-dimensional (3D) cantilever beam …

Vibro-acoustic control of a programmable meta-shell with digital piezoelectric shunting

S Dai, Y Zheng, J Mao, Y Qu - International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 2023 - Elsevier
In this paper, a programmable piezoelectric meta-shell is designed to actively control the
structural and sound radiation responses. The meta-shell consists of a cylindrical shell …

Ultra-broad bandgap induced by hybrid hardening and softening nonlinearity in metastructure

J Zhao, H Zhou, K Yi, I Kovacic, R Zhu - Nonlinear Dynamics, 2023 - Springer
Metamaterials are artificial microstructured media that exhibit unique effective material
properties and can be tailored to achieve negative properties that inhibit the propagation of …

Tunable shunting periodic acoustic black holes for low-frequency and broadband vibration suppression

X Chen, Y Jing, J Zhao, J Deng, X Cao, H Pu… - Journal of Sound and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Acoustic Black Holes (ABH) embedded within structures can efficiently damp
vibrations above the cut-on frequency but fails below it, particularly when the flexural …

Flexural wave compression behaviors of programmable graded piezoelectric meta-beams

S Dai, H Gao, J Mao, P Gao, Y Qu - International Journal of Mechanical …, 2024 - Elsevier
Active electromechanical metamaterials have drawn significant attention due to their
remarkable tunability and adaptability in vibration and wave control. Exploiting the …

Three-dimensional ultra-wide elastic metamaterial with inertial amplification mechanisms having optimized flexure hinges

SN Otlu, B Acar, ZG Tetik, C Yilmaz - International Journal of Solids and …, 2023 - Elsevier
The aim of this paper is to obtain an ultra-wide low-frequency stop band in three dimensions
by using inertial amplification mechanisms. A two-stage remote center flexure mechanism …