Mechanical metamaterials are engineered materials with unconventional mechanical
behavior that originates from artificially programmed microstructures along with intrinsic …

Metamaterials and phononic crystals (PCs) with artificially designed periodic microstructures
have attracted increasing research interests due to their unique properties that cannot be …

This paper investigates a technique for broadband vibration suppression using a graded
metamaterial beam. A series of local resonators with the same mass but different natural …

Acoustic black hole (ABH) structures have been widely utilized for vibration suppression
owing to its tailored indentations according to a power-law profile. Compared with single …

Inertial amplification has been utilized in phononic media as a mechanism for the generation
of large band gaps at low subwavelength frequencies. A unique feature in an inertial …

Quasi-zero stiffness (QZS) isolators have demonstrated appropriate low-frequency vibration
isolation performance without sacrificing the load-bearing capacity. The current …

This work presents a novel strategy of broadband vibration attenuation using a graded
piezoelectric metamaterial beam. A series of electrode pairs with varying lengths are applied …

Metamaterials are an emerging type of man-made material capable of obtaining some
extraordinary properties that cannot be realized by naturally occurring materials. Due to …

The paper proposes a modified metamaterial beam for simultaneous vibration suppression
and energy harvesting. Local resonators in the modified metamaterial beam are alternately …

Stubbed plates, ie, thin elastic sheets endowed with pillar-like resonators, display
subwavelength, locally resonant bandgaps that are primarily controlled by the intrinsic …